Author's Preface | Translator's Preface | Reviewer's Note | Recommended Preface

1 What are Screening and Assessment?
Movement Screening and Assessment Practice | Body Parts vs. Movement Patterns | Movement vs. Movement Paradox | Movement is Our Business | Systems vs. Programs | Movement Screening Models | Function vs. Anatomy | Dysfunction, Pain, and Rehabilitation | History of FMS | Recognizing Patterns | Five Basic Principles of Functional Movement System Planning | Overview of Functional Movement System Goals

2 Anatomical Science vs. Functional Science
Stabilizer vs. agonist muscle training | Muscle function - movement and sensation | Joints and ligaments | The fascial matrix | Breathing | Neuromuscular networks | True movement | Movement foundations | Decomposition and reorganization | Movement deficits and dysfunctions | Developmental movement dysfunction | Traumatic movement dysfunction | Acquired movement dysfunction | Pain changes everything

3 Understanding movement
Movement Knowledge vs. Exercise Knowledge | Two Functional Movement Systems | Basic Movement Before Specialization | Understanding the Perspective on Activities, Exercises, and Athletics | Difficulties vs. Challenges | Professional Crossroads | Diseases, Injuries, and Illnesses | Thin-Slicing | Examinations, Testing, and Assessments | Overview of the System | Movement Assessment | Overview of the Functional Movement System | Basic Movement System - Functional Movement Screening: FMS | Clinical Framework - Selective Functional Movement Assessment: SFMA | Creating Functional Movement Standards

4. Movement Test
The Impact of Injuries on Movement | Where Does Movement Testing Fit In? | Movement Testing Results | Pre-Participation and Performance Review

5 Functional Movement Systems and Movement Patterns
FMS Overview | SFMA Top-Ranking Assessments | SFMA Details | Test Concepts | Functional Movement Test Criteria | FMS Design | Four Basic Filters | Pain vs. Discomfort During the Test | FMS Scoring - Results Hierarchy

6 Functional Movement Test Description
FMS Scorecard | FMS Test List | Deep Squat Movement Pattern | Hurdle Step Movement Pattern | Inline Lunge Movement Pattern | Shoulder Mobility Reach Movement Pattern | Confirmation Test | Active Straight Leg Raise Movement Pattern
Trunk Stability Push-Up Movement Pattern | Verification Test | Rotational Safety Movement Pattern | Verification Test | Functional Movement Test Conclusion | Increased Activity Risk | Movement Test Modification | Modification Hierarchy

7 SFMA Introduction and Top Tests
Clinical considerations of movement patterns | Characteristics of SFMA | Movement pattern mapping | SFMA criteria | Functional and pain-free (FN) | Functional and painful (FP) | Dysfunctional and painful (DP) | Dysfunctional and pain-free (DN) | SFMA highest-level test | Hierarchy of functional movement assessment results | SFMA vs. FMS | Pain and motor control | Functional perspectives in clinical musculoskeletal assessment | Levels of information | Hierarchy of assessment | Functional patterns and postures | Symptom provocation | SFMA highest-level assessment | Cervical spine assessment | Upper extremity movement pattern assessment | Multisegmental flexion assessment | Multisegmental extension assessment | Multisegmental rotation assessment | Single-leg standing posture assessment | Deep squat with arms raised overhead | Balanced movement techniques and pain information

8 SFMA Evaluation Details and Flowchart
Mobility Issues | Stability Issues | Flowchart | SFMA Subsections | Cervical Movement Pattern Subsections | Theoretical Explanation of Upper Extremity Pattern Subsections | Multi-Segment Flexion Subsections | Theoretical Explanation of Multi-Segment Extension Subsections | Lower Body Extension Subsections | Upper Body Extension Subsections | Multi-Segment Rotation Subsections | Hip Rotation Subsections | Tibial Rotation Subsections | Single-Leg Stance Subsections | Vestibular and Core Subsections | Ankle Subsections | Theoretical Explanation of Deep Squat with Arms Over Head Subsections | Rolling Subsections

9 Analyzing Movements in Tests and Evaluations
Deep Squat | Errors in the Squat Test | Symmetry vs. Asymmetry | Sticking to the Test | Stability and Mobility in the Deep Squat | Squatting: Patterns and Exercises | Total Pattern Training | Reverse Patterning in the Deep Squat | Reactive Neuromuscular Training (RNT) for the Deep Squat | Deep Squat Shadow | Hurdle Step and Single-Legged Stand | Practicing the Pattern | Compensations in the Hurdle Step and Single-Legged Stand | Runners and Single-Legged Stand | Inline Lunge | Inherent Core Stability in the Pattern | Lunge as a Movement Pattern | Core Stability in the Lunge | Shoulder Mobility Reach Test | Complementary Movements in Shoulder Mobility | Coaching or Retraining Natural Patterns | Active Straight Leg Raises | Hip and Active Leg Raises | Corrective Progression | Mobility Before Stability | Push-Ups | Mastering Pushing Symmetry | Rotational Safety | Rolling Patterns

Understanding 10 Correction Strategies
Common Corrective Exercise Mistakes | Creating Something Out of Nothing - The Alchemy of Movement | Accuracy in Testing and Assessment | Starting with Exercise Fundamentals | The Performance Pyramid | The Optimal Performance Pyramid | The Overpowered Performance Pyramid | The Underpowered Performance Pyramid | The Underskilled Performance Pyramid | Using the Performance Pyramid | Short-Term Reactions vs. Long-Term Adaptations | The Progression of Corrective Exercise | Increasing the Difficulty | Asking the Right Questions | Which Exercises Should Be Eliminated from Your Program | Corrective Exercises Are Complementary | Exercise: Correct vs. Corrective | Correct Exercises | Self-Limiting Exercises - Natural Corrective Exercises | Examples of Self-Limiting Activities | Challenging vs. Difficult | The Goals of Corrective Exercises

11 Developing Corrective Strategies
It's All About Tension and Tone | Dysfunctional Patterns | FMS and Corrective Exercises | SFMA and Corrective Exercises | Corrective Exercises and Functional Exercises | Putting Function into Functional Exercises | Conditioning Exercises, Corrective Exercises, and Movement Preparation | Conditioning Exercises | Corrective Exercises | Movement Preparation | Skill Training, Conditioning, and Corrective Exercises | Movement Preparation vs. Movement Correction | Prioritizing Corrections for FMS | Prioritizing Corrections for SFMA | Developing Your Correction Toolbox for FMS and SFMA

12 Creating a Correction Framework
The Six Ps of Corrective Exercise | Pain | Purpose | Posture | Position | Pattern | Plan | Learning or Executing the Movement | Special Considerations and Groups | Just Do It | Movement Psychology | Breathing Test

13 Movement Pattern Correction
Basic Mobility Correction | Passive Mobility Correction | Active Mobility Correction | Assisted Mobility Correction | Basic Stability, Motor Control Correction | Postures for Stability Correction Exercises | FMS Roll | SFMA Roll | Static and Dynamic Stability Correction | Transitional Postures - Examples of Static Stability | Dynamic Stability Correction | Summary of Stability Correction

14 Advanced Correction Strategies
Movement Learning Considerations | Zones of Manageable Error | Case Studies of Corrective Experiences | Paranoid Systems and Unknowable Systems | Overview of Corrective Systems | Mobility Frameworks | Stability Frameworks | Deadlifting Experiences | Training Wheels Don't Teach Balance | Advanced Corrective Strategies | Movement Pattern Retraining | Reverse Patterning (RP) | Reactive Neuromuscular Training (RNT) | Conscious Loading (CL) | Resisted Exercise (RE) | Movement Learning

15 Conclusion
The Possibility of True Movement | Exercise and Rehabilitation | Principles vs. Methods | If We Establish Them, They Will Come | Functional Movement System Principles | Technical Confidence vs. Systematic Authority | Amazing Movement: The Learning Brain | Dysfunctional Movement: The Learning Brain | Ancestral Wisdom

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1 Joint-by-Joint Concept
2 Expanding the individual joint approach
3 SFMA Scoring Sheet and Flowchart
4 breaths
5 Heart Rate Variability
6 Functional Movement System Teams, a small number of leaders
7 Initial Perspectives and Jump Studies
8-core test and functional angle measurement
9 FMS score criteria
10 Verbal Methods for Functional Movement Testing
11 Examples of Traditional Deep Squat Assessment Processes
12 Patient Self-Assessment Form

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"Movement" is a vivid discovery that offers fundamental and clear teachings on returning to basics with a whole new meaning.
In this book, Gray Cook provides a clear model and common language for health and rehabilitation professionals to work together across the boundaries of rehabilitation, conditioning, and fitness.

Gray offers a fresh perspective on motor learning, corrective exercise, and modern conditioning training by using systematic logic and revisiting the natural developmental principles that infants use to learn to walk, run, and climb.

Here are the discoveries, lessons, and approaches you will learn:

- How to check and measure the quantity along with the quality of movement
- How to identify dysfunctional patterns using functional movement testing (FMS)
What Clinicians Need to Know About the Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA)
- How to decide when to apply correction strategies and which strategies to use.
- How to map movement patterns and understand movement as action, not just as mechanical ideas.

This book is not simply an anatomy of moving structures.
It has a larger purpose of helping readers understand true human movement and how the brain and body create and learn movement patterns.
Modern dysfunctions are a product of sedentary lifestyles that often limit access to and isolation from exercise.
By returning to the principles of movement, we can create more comprehensive models of exercise, rehabilitation, and movement that begin with movement.