Use of clinical movement screening tests to predict injury in sport

Table 4 Landing Error Scoring System scoring criteria real-time

LESS RT item	Operational definition	View	Jump number
Stance width	Participant lands with very wide or very narrow stance (+1)	Front	1
Maximum foot-rotation position	Participants feet moderately externally or internally rotated at any point during the landing (+1)	Front	1
Initial foot-contact symmetry	One foot lands before the other or 1 foot lands heel-to-toe and other foot lands toe-to-heel (+1)	Front	1
Maximum knee-valgus angle	Participant moves into a small amount of knee valgus (+1); Participant moves into a large amount of knee valgus (+2)	Front	2
Amount of lateral trunk flexion	Participant leans to left or right so trunk is not vertical in the frontal plan (+1)	Front	2
Initial landing of feet	Participant lands heel to toe or with flat foot (+1)	Side	3
Amount of knee-flexion displacement	Participant goes through small (+2) or average (+1) amount of knee flexion displacement	Side	3
Amount of trunk-flexion displacement	Participant goes through small (+2) or average (+1) amount of trunk flexion displacement	Side	4
Total joint displacement in sagittal plane	Participant goes through large displacement of trunk and knees, score soft (0); Participant goes through average displacement of trunk and knees, score average (+1); Participant goes through minimal displacement of trunk and knees, score stiff (+2)	Side	All
Overall impression	Participant displays soft landing and no frontal plane motion at knee, score excellent (0); Participant displays stiff landing and large frontal plane motion at knee, score poor (+2); All other landings score average (+1)

LESS: Landing Error Scoring System.