Establishing Normative Values and Clinician Assessment Accuracy for the Single Leg Bridge Endurance Test.
Haley Worst, Nancy Henderson
PMID 41488382WHAT IT FOUND
Healthy young adults held the single leg bridge 65.2 seconds on the dominant leg and 63.95 seconds on the nondominant leg.
Clinician visual timing tracked app-based angle timing closely.
Key findings
01After removing three outliers, normative single leg bridge hold times were 65.2 seconds (SD = 32.7) for the dominant leg and 63.95 seconds (SD = 33.71) for the nondominant leg.
02When outliers were excluded, clinician visual timing correlated strongly with app-based angle timing for both limbs (dominant r = 0.815, nondominant r = 0.837, p < 0.001).
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
The study used convenience sampling and a homogeneous group of young, active, asymptomatic adults, so the values may not apply to older, sedentary, or injured patients. The normative values were calculated after removing outliers. The study did not test people with current or recent back or lower-extremity pain, so it does not show how injured patients perform. App-based measurement still involved some subjectivity in deciding when form was lost compared with more advanced motion capture.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflicts of interest and no financial or personal relationships that could influence the work.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat these hold times as normal for older, sedentary, or injured patients. They are preliminary values from healthy young adults.
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