Table 5.

Methodological Quality of Clinical Studies based on PEDro Scale

	Criteria	Ang et al	Barsotti et al	Bundy et al	Carino-Escobar et al	Chowdhury-b	Chowdhury-c	Frolov et al	Norman et al	Ono et al	Tsuchimoto et al	Wang et al
1	Eligibility criteriaa	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1
2	Random allocation	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	1
3	Concealed allocation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
4	Baseline comparability	1	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0
5	Blind subjects	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
6	Blind therapists	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
7	Blind assessors	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
8	Adequate follow-up	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1
9	Intention-to-treat analysis	0	0	1	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
10	Between-group comparisons	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	1	1	1
11	Point estimates and variability	1	1	1	1	1	0	1	1	1	1	1
Total		6	2	4	4	5	3	5	4	3	7	7

^aNot included in the final score