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Functional Movement Analysis Essay

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Intro: This movement analysis project examines the free throw of a male college basketball player. The foul shot was broken up into four segments of movement which can be listed in order as the wind up, the set, the shot, and the follow through. We also examined the athlete’s
Functional Movement Screen (FMS), highlighting where the athlete excelled and where he had deficits. The FMS findings were applied to the skills needed to compete in basketball at the collegiate level. Lastly, we analyzed the arthrokinematics and osteokinematics of the joints during these movements, the angles of those joints, as well as the muscles involved during the movements. Description: To begin the study, our group was given an athlete. First, our athlete was asked to perform a FMS, which …show more content…

Next, the athlete was positioned standing behind a college regulation basketball foul line, in front of and in line with the basket and given a basketball to hold at waist level. The athlete was then asked to perform a foul shot, and was video recorded from a lateral and frontal view using an app called Technique. The video captured the full movement in two lines of sight.
Using the app, the motion was broken into segments, paused and a still shot was taken. A still shot was taken at the beginning and end of each segment. The segments included “backswing” where the ball was brought from waist level to just anterior to the head. Next was “force producing movement” where the ball was positioned slightly inferior to its previous position to where max power could be produced. Then “critical instant”, where the ball is pushed with great force (up until ball leaves fingertips), Lastly, “follow-through” where the ball leaves the fingertips and the hand continues through its motion. Angles were placed on each still shot at the glenohumeral joint, the humeroulnar joint, and the ulnocarpal joint. These

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