پديدآورندگان :
Harati J j.harati2000@gmail.com MSc student, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran , Qaranjik N j.harati2000@gmail.com MSc student, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran , Daneshmandi H j.harati2000@gmail.com Professor, Faculty member of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran
كليدواژه :
functional movement screen , core stability , swimming , athletic performance
چكيده فارسي :
Recently, a range of assessments as pre-participation movement screens have been used to measure functional movement, predicting injury risk and sports performance. The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a series of functional movement tests composed of seven tests designed to predict injury risk as well as sports performance. It is also stated that the tests evaluate muscular mobility, stability, and core stabilization. To date, research has been focused on FMS scores in land-based populations. No known FMS data has been published for aquatic athletes. Objectives: To determine the relationship between Functional Movement Screen scores, core function and swim performance in adolescent swimmers. Methods: A total of 15 adolescents, 15 to 19 years of old, club-level swimmers (age=16.87±1.51 years, body weight= 69.97±7.01 kg, height= 179.43±1.56 cm, body mass index (BMI) = 21.71±1.90 Kg/m2) participated in the present study. Prior to Statistical analysis process, due to the sample size of the present study the normality of data with the sample size checked by the Shapiro-Wilk test. The Pearson and Spearman correlation methods were used to examine the relationships between variables. The statistically significant values were accepted at p 0.05 Results: There were no significant relationship between FMS scores and 200m swim performance. The tests included, deep squat (r= -0.347, p= 0.205), hurdle step (r= -0.245, p= 0.379), in-line lunge (r= -0.264, p= 0.342), active straight-leg raise (r= -0.363, p= 0.183), shoulder mobility (r= -0.130, p= 0.646), trunk stability push up (r= -0.155, p= 0.581), rotary stability (r= -0.403, p= 0.136) and total FMS score (r= -0.461, p= 0.084) which show no significant relationship with swim time. In terms of core function measured by tests time span (left flexion test, right flexion test, plank to fatigue test, Sorensen and 60 trunk flexion test) and FMS scores, there were no significant correlations not only between each individual FMS tests and core stability tests but also, between total core function and total FMS scores (r= 0.061, p= 0.830). Conclusions: Regardless of the fact that FMS is valuable in identifying individual weaknesses, compensations, asymmetries, and dysfunctional movement patterns, it has valuable measures in evaluating joint mobility, stability, flexibility and asymmetry which are important for swimming performance, but no significant relation was seen between FMS tests and 200m swim performance. It seems that FMS is not a suitable assessment tool in assessing swimming performance. Therefore, this information is viable for those looking to do more research on the FMS as a predictor of athletic performance because it does not show results in favor of the FMS, according to this study.
