Ritual, Commodity, and Incubator of Pseudoscience: A Sociological Critique on the Proliferation of the Functional Movement Screen (FMS)
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FMS；Functional Movement Screen；Pseudoscience；Sociology of Sports；Certification Economy；Society of the Spectacle摘要
Initially conceptualized as a protocol for assessing fundamental movement patterns, the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) was historically lauded as the “gold standard” in injury prevention. Yet, contemporary high-quality, evidence-based sports science has rigorously exposed its profound lack of empirical validity in injury prediction and precision training, revealing distinct hallmarks of pseudoscience. Eschewing mere technical reductionism, this paper employs a sociological lens to interrogate the paradox of how a framework fundamentally lacking rigorous empirical backing could achieve such pervasive, transnational diffusion throughout modern athletics, clinical rehabilitation, and the broader fitness industry. Our findings suggest that the global hegemony of the FMS is a synergistic byproduct of monopolistic corporate structures, the commercial over-packaging by proxy agencies, late modernity’s blind fetishization of scientism, and the institutionalized adoption of defensive risk-avoidance strategies by practitioners.
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