“The language of movement is written in feel - not in words and pictures.” Gray Cook observes the natural process of childhood movement development, how it happens without coaching and how positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and pain are essential motivators.

The Functional Movement Screen uses basic body weight patterns like a deep squat or lunge to screen for pain and dysfunction. Why would you want to load a pattern for exercise when it is difficult, impossible, or painful with body weight? That’s the power of the FMS. It identifies the movement patterns we should not stress and guides us to movement function using corrective exercises.

Systems that communicate about movement through feel should be the starting point in combating growing problems like obesity, low-back pain, and female ACL injuries.

The FMS helps establish a correct perspective on movement - individuals can be overconfident in their movement patterns, which can lead to risk and injury; underconfident, which can hamper full development; or they have a good idea of how well (or not well) they move and are thus good at self-regulation. The Functional Movement Screen helps give more people the objective outlook of self-regulators.

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