Association Between Individual Functional Movement Screen™ Tasks and Sports Injury Occurrence in University Basketball Players: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Takanori Kikumoto, Marina Kobayashi, Satoshi Hori and 2 others
The standard FMS total score did not predict injury in 85 basketball players over one year.
Scoring 2 or below on the deep squat was associated with 3.47 times higher odds of injury. The hurdle step trended the same way but did not reach significance.
Key findings
1The conventional FMS total score cut-off of 14 or below was not associated with injury occurrence (AUC = 0.52, p = 0.84; sensitivity 0.38, specificity 0.61).
2In logistic regression, scoring 2 or below on the deep squat task was associated with a significantly increased injury risk (OR = 3.47, 95% CI 1.02 to 11.83, p = 0.047).
3Scoring 2 or below on the hurdle step showed an increased risk direction but did not reach statistical significance in the unadjusted model (OR = 2.26, 95% CI 0.71 to 7.21, p = 0.166).
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What it does not show
Single site, single sport, one season. The findings may not transfer to other sports or to recreational players. No intervention was tested. This is an association, not a proof that correcting the deep squat or hurdle step prevents injury. No exposure data were collected, so injury rates per training hour or match cannot be calculated. No strength testing or motion analysis was done, so the biomechanical reason for the association is unknown. The effect sizes are small (r = 0.225 for deep squat, 0.251 for hurdle step), and the confidence interval for the deep squat odds ratio is wide (1.02 to 11.83). Sex-specific analyses were underpowered (42 male, 43 female).
Declared interests
The authors declare no conflicts of interest and no funding from any public, commercial, or not-for-profit source.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the deep squat and hurdle step findings as validated injury predictors. This is one season of one sport with 85 players, the effect sizes are small (r = 0.225 and 0.251), the confidence interval for the deep squat odds ratio spans 1.02 to 11.83, and the hurdle step did not reach significance in the regression model.
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