Table 4.

PEDro scale criteria and scoring^a

Criterion	Study
	Munday 2007 [40]	Haik 2014 [41]	Kardouni 2015 [38]	Kardouni 2015 [39]
Random allocation	✔	✔	✔	✔
Concealed allocation			✔	✔
Baseline comparability	✔	✔	✔	✔
Subject blinding			✔	✔
Therapist blinding
Assessor blinding		✔	✔	✔
Follow-up		✔	✔	✔
Intention-to-treat
Between group analysis	✔	✔	✔	✔
Point estimates and variability	✔	✔	✔	✔
Total	4/10	6/10	8/10	8/10

^aRanking as follows: 9 to 10 is considered excellent, 6 to 8 is good, 4 to 5 is fair, and 3 or

below represents poor quality