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Wendell P Liemohn1, Ted A Baumgartner, Laura H Gagnon
1Department of Exercise, Sport, and Leisure Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA. wliemohn@utk.edu
Abstract:
In this study, a 4-item battery of core stability (CS) tests modeled on core stabilization activities used in training and rehabilitation research was developed, and a measurement schedule was established to maximize internal consistency and stability reliabilities. Specifically, we found that 4 test administrations on each of 4 days produced intraclass correlation coefficients that in most instances exceeded 0.90 and stability reliability coefficients on the third and fourth days of testing that exceeded 0.90 for 2 of the tests and 0.80 for the other 2. Thus, it is recommended that in future research, examiners administer the battery for at least 3 days and consider the data collected on day 3 as the best estimate of participant CS.
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