Characteristics and usefulness of trunk muscle endurance tests on the Roman chair in healthy adults

Adequate trunk muscle endurance is considered to be an important indicator of good low back stabilitytherefore, its assessment is needed when determining an individual\u27s risk for back pain. Optimal tests to assess each trunk muscle group separately are difficult to find. The objective of this study was to verify if two groups of trunk muscle endurance tests (standard and alternative) show comparable results in terms of muscle endurance ratios, holding times and rated perceived effort to perform each test