The vast differences in utilization of many physical and performance tests during pre‐participation or return to sport assessments illustrate the difficulty in identifying individuals at risk for injury. Although physical and performance tests are commonly reliable and have some level of normative data, they typically do not expose specific kinetic chain weaknesses. These two evaluation methods offer little insight into individualized fundamental movement strategies that affect the whole of sport performance. Numerous sports medicine professionals have suggested the need for specific screening techniques that utilize a more functional approach in order to identify movement deficits.4,5,6 The authors of this commentary suggest that the type of screening tasks that comprise the Functional Movement Screen™ (FMS™) may be a method of determining such markers that describe a “movement competency baseline”