Methodological quality assessment of included studies (PEDro scores)

StudyItem*
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Ahmed et al. [21]++–+–––++++7
Anwar et al. [14]++–+–––––++5
Anwer et al. [15]++–++––++++8
Croce [22]++–+–––––++5
Farì et al. [19]++–+–––––++5
Lucca and Recchiuti [23]++–+–––++++7
Oravitan and Avram [16]++–+–––––++5
Raeissadat et al. [17]++–++––++++8
Tiryaki et al. [20]++–+––––+++6
Yilmaz et al. [18]++–+–––++++7

* 1: eligibility criteria were specified; 2: subjects were randomly allocated to groups; 3: allocation was concealed; 4: groups were similar at baseline regarding the most important prognostic indicators; 5: blinding of all subjects; 6: blinding of all therapists who administered the therapy; 7: blinding of all assessors who measured at least one key outcome; 8: measures of at least one key outcome were obtained from more than 85% of the subjects initially allocated to groups; 9: all subjects for whom outcome measures were available received the treatment or control condition as allocated or, where this was not the case, data for at least one key outcome was analyzed by “intention to treat”; 10: results of between-group statistical comparisons are reported for at least one key outcome; 11: study provides both point measures and measures of variability for at least one key outcome