SpineFit Radio – What is Selective Functional Movement Assessment?
SFMA is short for Selective Functional Movement Assessment and while I realize this is a mouthful, it stands for a successful new tool we have implemented here in the clinic. A physical therapist by the name of Gray Cook came up with this assessment and simply put, it’s a way for us to assess a patient’s movement. It is now a regular part of our examination of a patient and we take you through a series of seven body movement tests which will reveal your functional patterns of movement. From there we can determine where you have some mobility or stability issues.
This assessment serves as a flowchart which can take us in different directions. We can determine if you are weight bearing or have some thoracic spine issues. When we lay you down, we may discover a different path we should take as body movement can change when a patient goes from standing to laying.
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