Table 2. PEDro scale of the included studies; * = was not counted for the final score; 1 = one point awarded; 0 = no point awarded.  | 
   
  
    
 | 
Inclusion criteria | 
Random allocation | 
Concealed allocation | 
Similarity at baseline | 
Subject blinding | 
Therapist blinding | 
Assessor blinding | 
>85% follow-up | 
Intention to treat analysis | 
Between-group comparison | 
Point estimates and variability | 
Total | 
 
| Smith et al., 2018 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
6 | 
 
| Lin et al., 2020 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
6 | 
 
| Fairall et al., 2017 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
6 | 
 
| Richman et al., 2019 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
6 | 
 
| Škarabot et al., 2015 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
7 | 
 
| Hodgson et al., 2019 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
7 | 
 
| Kyranoudis et al., 2019 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
6 | 
 
| Che Hsiu et al., 2021 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
6 | 
 
| Somers et al., 2020 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
9 | 
 
| Smith et al., 2019 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
9 | 
 
| Peacock et al., 2014 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
0 | 
0 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
6 | 
 
| Cunha et al., 2021 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
0 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
1 | 
9 | 
 
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