Effects of special exercise programs on functional movement screen scores and injury prevention in preprofessional young football players

Abstract

To increase movement capacity and to reduce injury risk in young soccer players by implementing a special functional exercise program based on functional movement screen (FMS) and correctives. 67 young male athletes 14–19 years of age from a Super League Football Club Academy participated in the study. Functional movement patterns were evaluated with FMS assessment protocol. Deep squat, hurdle step, inline lunge, shoulder mobility, active straight leg raise, trunk stability push-up, and rotatory stability were examined in FMS. Considering the FMS scores the number of intervention and control groups were defined as 24 and 43, respectively. Intervention program was composed of 1 hr twice a week sessions in total of 12 weeks with 4 weeks of mobility, 4 weeks of stability, and 4 weeks of integration exercises. At the end of 12-week intervention and control groups were re-evaluated with FMS protocol. Contact and noncontact sports injuries recorded during one season. In intervention group there was statistically significant difference in increase in total FMS scores (P<0.01), deep squat (P≤0.001), hurdle step (P<0.05), inline lunge (P<0.01), and trunk stability push-up (P<0.01). In control group total FMS, deep squat, and trunk stability push-up scores increased with a statistical difference (P<0.01, P<0.05, P≤0.01, respectively). The incidence of noncontact injury in control group was higher than intervention group (P<0.05). Periodic movement screening and proper corrections with functional training is valuable in order to create better movement capacity to build better physical performance and more effective injury prevention.

Anthropometry, Physical and Movement Features, and Repeated-sprint Ability in Soccer Players

“…This suggests that besides training some traditional physical attributes, improving young soccer athletes' movements may significantly impact RSA performance. In this regard, Dinc et al [15] recently presented an off-season training program aimed at reducing asymmetrical and dysfunctional movements, assessed with FMS, in young players. The present study included youth elite and sub-elite athletes, highlighting several differences between the 2 groups.…”

Effects of functional movement screen training in high-school baseball players

“…[ 23 ] The inline lunge test evaluates hip and ankle mobility and stability, quadriceps flexibility, and knee stability. [ 15 ] Dinc [ 19 ] reported that the inline lunge score improved by performing upper and lower extremity stretching, trunk muscle training, and functional movement training. The active straight leg raise mainly evaluates the flexibility of the lower extremity and core stability with lower extremity movement.…”

“…FMS training consists of no-load exercises, kettle bell training, core board and cable machine exercises. [ 7 , 13 , 14 , 19 , 20 ] According to the recommendation from Song, [ 14 ] fascial release using a foam roller over the gluteus maximus, quadriceps femoris, tensor fasciae latae, hip adductors, hamstring, triceps surae, latissimus dorsi, and back muscles can also help to improve the FMS score. In that study, trunk training (side planks, curl up, trunk stability) were also undertaken in the intervention group.…”

Influencia de las lesiones previas en los patrones fundamentales del movimiento en jugadoras profesionales de fútbol. [Influence of previous injuries on fundamental movement patterns in professional female soccer players].

“…Entre las pruebas más utilizadas para evaluar la calidad de movimiento en atletas destaca la batería Functional Movement Screen (FMS) de Cook, Burton, Hoogenboom y Voight (2014a; 2014b). Se han encontrado diferentes estudios que utilizan esta batería en fútbol (Chalmers y col., 2018;Dinc, Kilinc, Bulat, Erten, y Bayraktar, 2017;Lisman, Nadelen, Hildebrand, Leppert, y de la Motte, 2018), destacando que las variables que más influyen en los resultados son el historial de lesiones y el sexo del jugador (Chimera, Smith, y Warren, 2015). Tanto es así que se ha utilizado FMS para predecir el riesgo de lesión del LCA sin contacto en jugadoras de fútbol, determinando que aquellas jugadoras que obtienen una puntuación superior a 14 poseen mayor riesgo (Landis, Baker, y Seegmiller, 2018).…”