The SFMA Composite Report is the output of a completed Selective Functional Movement Assessment Protocol. It combines an overview of the whole assessment with an individual report for every movement captured, giving a full picture of functional ability across the body. This article explains what the composite report contains and how it is structured.

The Selective Functional Movement Assessment was created by Functional Movement Systems Inc. (FMS). It is a diagnostic movement assessment designed to break down painful and dysfunctional movement patterns.

Movements fall into three categories — cervical, upper-extremity, and multi-segmental — and each individual movement is classified into one of four groups:

We partnered with FMS to digitize the SFMA Protocol into a guided capture workflow in the 3motionAI Pro App. Alongside the standard classification, each movement also receives a proprietary score from 0 to 100 reflecting how well the motor pattern was completed. That score is what allows movements to be ranked from best to worst, so the areas needing the most clinical attention surface directly.

For more on the assessment itself, see the FMS website.

A complete Protocol captures ten movements, recorded one after another in a guided workflow:

Detailed instructions for each movement are available in the App via the information button within the workflow, and any captured video can be played back and recaptured before processing (Figure 1).

Figure 1. Example movement instruction screen available for one of the ten (10) movements in the SFMA Protocol on the 3motionAI Pro mobile App (left). The instructions are available as needed in an information button within the workflow. A captured video can be played back and re-captured if required (right). There is also a checkbox to indicate painful movements to help with movement categorization.

Pain Input

During capture, the person running the protocol marks painful movements using a checkbox. This input feeds directly into the FN / FP / DN / DP classification which is why the pain checkbox and feedback is very important; a movement cannot be correctly categorized without it.

The first page of the composite report summarizes the whole assessment. It contains six elements (Figure 2):

Figure 2. Each Protocol comes with a composite PDF report, with the first page containing a Protocol Overview. The summary page includes the overall Performance Score, the number of functional movement patterns based on SFMA criteria, the number of painful movement patterns as indicated by the participant, a ranking of individual movements based on Performance Score, a summary movement profile based on body region/domain, and a summary of recommended target areas for intervention.

Why it Matters
The ranking in element 4 is what the 0–100 scoring makes possible. Standard SFMA classification tells you which patterns are dysfunctional; the score tells you which of those dysfunctional patterns is furthest from normal, and therefore where to start.

Following the overview, the composite PDF appends a separate report for each movement completed. Every individual report contains five elements (Figure 3):

Figure 3. Each Protocol comes with reports for each individual movement completed. An individual movement report contains: a reference image for the movement completed; indicators for movement pass/fail criteria, function/dysfunction criteria, and pain; static metrics and movement (performance) score; video screenshots during key checkpoints; and data plots of relevant metrics.

Together these let you move from the summary ranking on page 1 into the evidence behind any single movement's score.

The composite report is designed to support clinical decision-making. The classifications, scores, and recommended target areas are outputs of a standardized assessment applied to a single capture session. Interpretation, diagnosis, and any plan of care remain the responsibility of a qualified clinician, who should weigh these results alongside history, examination, and everything else they know about the person in front of them.

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