Sports Injury in the Context of FMS Functional Movement Examination in Players Youth Football

Abstract

In the introduction, the researcher touched on the importance  of this research in identifying areas of dysfunction in the body by testing the FMS in football players as a direct indicator in knowing the damage that may occur in the future in the players, which contributes to preventing or reducing the injury that occurs in players, especially young football players, because sometimes the injured player does not provide accurate or correct information about his injury by the method of interrogation only for fear of exclusion from the formation of the team. This has  negative effects on the team in general and on the player in particular, and this is reflected in the method of treatment and the exacerbation of the severity of the injury, as for the research problem, football is one of the team games that is characterized by the element of speed and strength at the same time  , and despite the progress made in the field of sports medicine and methods of diagnosis and treatment, the problems of multiple injuries in athletes in general and football players in particular still constitute a very large percentage, and this is what The researcher found it in some youth clubs in Dhi Qar Governorate, and through the researcher's observation of the frequency of injuries in young football players and different areas of the body, in addition to the lack of interest of researchers in the aspects of prevention, she decided to study them in order to prevent and reduce their occurrence in the future using the  functional movement test (FMS)  for the early detection of areas of dysfunction in some areas of the body. Identifying the areas of dysfunction using FMS among young football players from the areas of dyslexia, where the researcher used the descriptive method to suit it for the study, as for the research sample for the players of Dhi Qar clubs for the youth football players category for the sports season 2025-2026, the research population was (64) players and its sample was (18) players, the researcher reached the possibility of identifying sports injury through  the FMS  device.