| AMSTAR 2 | A MeaSurement Tool to Assess systematic Reviews 2 |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| GRADE | Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation |
| ICON | International Scientific Tendinopathy Consensus Group |
| IQR | Interquartile Range |
| PICO | Population, Intervention, Comparison, Outcomes |
| PRISMA | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses |
| PRISMA-P | Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Protocols |
| PROSPERO | International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews |
| RCT | Randomized Controlled Trial |
| ROBINS-I | Risk Of Bias In Non-randomized Studies of Interventions |
| RoB 2 | Cochrane Risk of Bias tool, version 2 |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| VAS | Visual Analogue Scale |
| VISA-A | Victorian Institute of Sports Assessment—Achilles questionnaire |
| RM | Repetition Maximum |