Screening & Intake

Postural Assessment, Functional Screening & the Client Intake — Beyond the Corrective-Exercise Myth

Screening & Intake is Book C6 of The Performance & Human Physiology Encyclopedia — a 93-volume, university-level library on the science that decides whether training works. It is written for coaches, personal trainers and athletes who want reasons, not recipes: deep enough that a professional already trained in the field keeps learning, structured clearly enough that a motivated reader can follow every step.

What you will find inside

• The Intake as the Foundation of Coaching
• The Subjective History: The Most Valuable Assessment
• Goal-Setting and Expectations
• The Postural Assessment: What It Can and Can't Tell You
• The Muscle-Imbalance and "Corrective Exercise" Paradigm: A Critical Look
• Functional Movement Screening: Honest Use
• Joint-by-Joint and Regional Screening
• Pain, Red Flags, and the Referral Decision
• Special Populations Intake
• Building the Initial Program from the Assessment
• Re-Assessment, Documentation, and Communication
• Myths, Marketing, and the Assessment Industry
• Putting It Into Practice: The Assessment & Intake Workflow

How this book is written

• University level, without dilution. Exact scientific terminology, defined at first use — mechanisms, not just conclusions.
• Evidence graded, not asserted. Major claims carry a level, from A (strong) to D (expert opinion), so you always know how much weight to give them.
• Numbers, formulas, worked examples. Reference ranges, equations and solved calculations you can apply the same day.
• Myths confronted directly. Where a popular claim does not survive the evidence, the book says so — and shows why.
• Fully referenced (APA 7). References at the end of every chapter, plus a master bibliography.

13 chapters · approx. 94 pages · Book C6, Collection C — Training Science & Principles.