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name: kinesiology-assessment
description: Use when asked to administer, score, or explain a Kinesiology Assessment — functional movement screening using the FMS (Functional Movement Screen) — grounded in FormExamples/form-examples.
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# Kinesiology Assessment

Functional movement screening using the FMS (Functional Movement
Screen) with seven standardized movement tests.

## Scoring

**Instrument:** FMS Score. Range 0–21.

- **0–14** — increased injury risk.
- **15–17** — moderate risk.
- **18–21** — low risk.

## What it covers

Demographics; referral information; movement history; and the seven
FMS tests: deep squat, hurdle step, in-line lunge, shoulder mobility,
active straight leg raise, trunk stability push-up, and rotary
stability.

## Common pitfalls

- **Scoring an individual movement pattern in isolation** — the FMS
  total is meant to be interpreted as a pattern across all seven tests,
  not any single movement; a low score on one test with strong scores
  elsewhere reads differently than a uniformly low profile.
- **Ignoring pain during a movement test** — any test that produces
  pain is scored differently (typically an automatic 0) and flagged for
  separate clinical evaluation, regardless of movement quality —
  pain overrides quality-based scoring.
- **Using FMS as a diagnostic tool** — it's a screening tool for
  movement-pattern quality and asymmetry, not a diagnosis of a specific
  injury or pathology.

## Learn more

- [FormExamples: kinesiology-assessment](https://github.com/FormExamples/form-examples/tree/main/forms/kinesiology-assessment) for the full implementation, clinical references, and worked examples.
- [[sports-medicine-assessment]] for a related athletic evaluation.