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. 2019 Nov 25;7(11):2325967119884071. doi: 10.1177/2325967119884071

Table A1.

Search String

  • Ovid Technologies

  • Database: Embase <1974 to 2017 Week 14>

  • Search Strategy:

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  • 1 achilles tendon rupture/

  • 2 (calcaneus or calcanea* or achillis or achillean or achilles).mp.

  • 3 (rupture* or injur* or tear or tears or lesion*).mp.

  • 4 2 and 3

  • 5 1 or 4

  • 6 exp rehabilitation/

  • 7 rehabilitation.fs.

  • 8 (rehabilitation or mobilization or mobilisation or ambulation or exercise* or immobilization

  •  or immobilisation).mp.

  • 9 mobilization/

  • 10 exp immobilization/

  • 11 or/6-10

  • 12 5 and 11

  • Database: Ovid MEDLINE(R) Epub Ahead of Print, In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, Ovid MEDLINE(R) Daily and Ovid MEDLINE(R) <1946 to Present>

  • Search Strategy:

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  • 1 Achilles Tendon/

  • 2 exp Rupture/

  • 3 (calcaneus or calcanea* or achillis or achillean or achilles).mp.

  • 4 (rupture* or injur* or tear or tears or lesion*).mp.

  • 5 1 or 3

  • 6 2 or 4

  • 7 5 and 6

  • 8 exp Rehabilitation/

  • 9 rehabilitation.fs.

  • 10 (rehabilitation or mobilization or mobilisation or ambulation or exercise* or

  •  immobilization or immobilisation).mp.

  • 11 exp Immobilization/

  • 12 or/8-11

  • 13 7 and 12

  • Database: Pedro

  • Search Strategy:

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  • 1 Achilles tendon rupture

  • Database: CINAHL

  • Search Strategy:

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  • 1 (MH “Achilles Tendon Rupture”)

  • 2 calcaneus or calcanea* or achillis or achillean or achilles

  • 3 rupture* or injur* or tear or tears or lesion*

  • 4 #2 and #3

  • 5 #1 or #4

  • 6 (MH “Rehabilitation+”)

  • 7 rehabilitation or mobilization or mobilization or ambulation or exercise* or immobilization

  •  or immobilization

  • 8 (MH “Immobilization”)

  • 9 #6 or #7 or #8

  • 10 #5 and #9

  • Database: Cochrane

  • Search Strategy:

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  • 1 MeSH descriptor: [Achilles Tendon] explode all trees

  • 2 (calcaneus or calcanea* or achillis or achillean or achilles): ti, ab

  • 3 MeSH descriptor: [Rupture] explode all trees

  • 4 (rupture* or injur* or tear or tears or lesion*): ti, ab

  • 5 #1 or #2

  • 6 #3 or #4

  • 7 #5 or #6

  • 8 MeSH descriptor: [Rehabilitation] explode all trees

  • 9 rehabilitation or mobilization or mobilisation or ambulation or exercise* or immobilization

  •  or immobilization

  • 10 #8 or #9

  • 11 #7 and #10