The effect of whole-body vibration on lower extremity function in children with cerebral palsy: A meta-analysis

Xiaoye Cai, Guoping Qian, Siyuan Cai, Feng Wang, Yingjuan Da and Zbigniew Ossowski

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 3, 1-18

Abstract: Objective: The aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the effect of whole-body vibration training on lower limb motor function in children with cerebral palsy in randomized-controlled trials (RCTs). Methods: Two independent reviewers systematically searched the records of nine databases (PubMed, Cochrane, Web of Science, EMBASE, CNKI, etc.) from inception to December 2022. Tools from the Cochrane Collaboration were used to assess risk of bias. Standard meta-analyses were performed using Stata 16.0 and Revman 5.3. For continuous variables, the arms difference was calculated as the weighted mean difference (WMD) between the values before and after the intervention and its 95% confidence interval (95% CI). Results: Of the 472 studies identified, 13 (total sample size 451 participants) met the inclusion criteria. Meta-analysis showed that WBV training could effectively improve GMFM88-D [WMD = 2.46, 95% CI (1.26, 3.67), P

Date: 2023
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