Validity of Perceived Discomfort as Postural Load Scale based on Maximum Holding Time

○cc This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective: This study aims to investigate validity of perceived discomfort as postural load scale based on maximum holding time (MHT), and to develop two regression models for MHT and perceived discomfort depending varying postures and external load.

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