Table 2.

Physiotherapy Evidence Database scale (PEDro) Methodological Quality Assessment Scores for each included article ^a

	1 b	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	Total
Feil et al16	×	×	–	×	–	–	×	–	×	×	×	6/10
Fitzgerald et al17	×	×	–	–	–	–	×	×	×	×	×	6/10
Lieber et al38	×	×	–	–	–	–	–	×	×	×	×	5/10
Sisk et al70	×	×	–	–	–	–	–	×	–	×	×	4/10
Stevens-Lapsley76	×	×	×	×	–	–	–	×	×	×	×	7/10
Wigerstad-Lossing et al82	×	×	–	–	–	–	–	×	×	×	×	5/10
Williams et al83	×	×	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	×	2/10
Yoshida et al84	×	×	×	×	–	–	×	×	–	×	×	7/10

^a“×” denotes criterion was satisfied, “–” denotes criterion was not satisfied.

^bQuestion 1 is not included in the score total.