Table 1.

Methodological quality of included articles in accordance with the PEDro scale

	Geroin et al., 2011 [21]	Manji et al., 2018 [22]	Yotnuengnit et al., 2017 [23]	Chang, Kim, & Park., 2015 [24]	Raithatha et al., 2016 [25]	Seo et al., 2017 [26]	Costa-Ribeiro et al., 2017 [27]	Kumru et al., 2016 [28]
Eligibility criteria	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
Random allocation	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
Concealed allocation			√			√	√
Basal intergroup similarities		√	√	√		√	√	√
Blinding of participants	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
Blinding of therapists		√				√
Blinding of assessors	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
Follow-up	√	√	√	√	√		√	√
Intention-to-treat analysis	√	√		√	√			√
Intergroup statistical comparison	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
Point measures and variability measures	√	√	√	√	√	√	√	√
Total score	7/10	9/10	8/10	8/10	7/10	8/10	8/10	8/10