Effect of Traditional Chinese Exercise on Gait and Balance for Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Bing-Lin Chen, Jia-Bao Guo, Ming-Shuo Liu, Xin Li, Jun Zou, Xi Chen, Ling-Li Zhang, Yu-Shan Yue and Xue-Qiang Wang

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 8, 1-14

Abstract: Objective: A systematic review is conducted to determine the effect of traditional Chinese exercise for patients with stroke. Methods: Studies are obtained from PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, EBSCO, Web of Science, and CNKI. Only randomized controlled trials were left to evaluate the effects of traditional Chinese exercise for patients with stroke, and with no limits on study data or language. The primary outcome was the Berg balance score (BBS), Functional walking scale. And a random-effects model was used to calculate the pooled mean difference (MD) with 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: A total of 9 studies on 820 participants conform to the inclusion criteria, whereas eight studies on 704 participants are used as data sources for the meta-analysis, all trials were published between 2004 and 2013. The BBS indicates that the efficacy of traditional Chinese exercise on balance of patients with stroke is better than that of other training or no training in short term [MD (95%CI) = 11.85 [5.41, 18.30], P

Date: 2015
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