TABLE 3.
Breakdown of PEDro scoring for each study.
| Criteria | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Score |
| Bisset et al42 | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | 8/10 |
| Paungmali et al33 | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | 8/10 |
| Struijs et al41 | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | 7/10 |
| Verhaar et al45 | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | 6/10 |
| Cleland et al43 | Y | Y | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | 6/10 |
| Drechsler et al38 | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | 5/10 |
| Langen-Pieters et al40 | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | Y | N | Y | Y | 5/10 |
| Stasinopoulos & Stasinopoulos44 | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | 5/10 |
| Vicenzino et al36 | Y | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | 5/10 |
| Kochar & Dogra39 | Y | N | Y | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | 4/10 |
| Vicenzino et al35 | Y | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N | Y | Y | 4/10 |
| Vicenzino et al34 | Y | N | N | N | N | N | N | N | Y | Y | 3/10 |
| Baltaci et al37 | |||||||||||
|
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
Y |
N |
1/10 |
|
| Total by criteria | 11/13 | 5/13 | 9/13 | 0/13 | 0/13 | 6/13 | 9/13 | 2/13 | 13/13 | 12/13 | |
*PEDro criteria: (2) random allocation to groups; (3) allocation was concealed; (4) group similarity at baseline; (5) blinding of subjects; (6) blinding of therapists; (7) blinding of outcome assessors; (8) measurement of at least one key outcome obtained from at least 85% of the group; (9) intention-to-treat analysis for at least one key outcome; (10) between group comparison for at least one key outcome; (11) reported point measurements and measurements of variability for at least one key outcome.