Table 2.

PEDro score for methodological quality assessment of five studies.

Study	Total Score	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Brown et al., 2002 [25]	8/10	–	×		×	×	×	×	×		×	×
Kessler et al., 2001 [17]	9/10	–	×	×	×	×	×		×	×	×	×
Rowe et al. [21]	4/10	–	×		×	×						×
Paick et al., 2006 [20]	7/10	–	×	×	×				×	×	×	×
He et al., 2020 [18]	/10	–	×		×	×	×		×	×	×	×

The symbol “×” indicates those items that have been scored; the symbol “–” indicates those items that were not counted for the final score.