ArticleInternational journal of general medicine2011
A systematic review of nonrandomized controlled trials on the curative effects of aquatic exercise.
Article in International journal of general medicine, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Balneotherapy using thermal mineral water baths and dermatological diseases: a systematic review.International journal of biometeorology · 2024Pooled it
- Balneotherapy for osteoarthritis: a systematic review.Rheumatology international · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of aquatic exercise for treatment of knee osteoarthritis: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Zeitschrift fur Rheumatologie · 2015Pooled it
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- Can Digital Technologies Be Useful for Weight Loss in Individuals with Overweight or Obesity? A Systematic Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Evidence of Improvement of Lower Limb Functioning Using Hydrotherapy on Spinal Cord Injury Patients.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- A Systematic Summary of Systematic Reviews on the Topic of the Rotator Cuff.Orthopaedic journal of sports medicine · 2018Review
- The effects of landed and aquatic treadmill walking at moderate intensity on heart rate, energy expenditure and catecholamine.Journal of exercise nutrition & biochemistry · 2014Article
- Suicidal ideation and associated factors among adolescents in northeastern Brazil.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2014Article
- A systematic review of randomized controlled trials on curative and health enhancement effects of forest therapy.Psychology research and behavior management · 2012Article
- Curative and health enhancement effects of aquatic exercise: evidence based on interventional studies.Open access journal of sports medicine · 2012Article
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13 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe objectives of this review were to integrate the evidence of curative effects through aquatic exercise and assess the quality of studies based on a review of nonrandomized controlled trials (nRCTs).
methodsStudy design was a systematic review of nonrandomized controlled trials. Trials were eligible if they were nonrandomized clinical trials. Studies included one treatment group in which aquatic exercise was applied. We searched the following databases from 2000 up to July 20, 2009: MEDLINE via PubMed, CINAHL, and Ichushi-Web.
resultsTwenty-one trials met all inclusion criteria. Languages included were English (N = 9), Japanese (N = 11), and Korean (N = 1). Target diseases were knee and/or hip osteoarthritis, poliomyelitis, chronic kidney disease, discomforts of pregnancy, cardiovascular diseases, and rotator cuff tears. Many studies on nonspecific disease (healthy participants) were included. All studies reported significant effectiveness in at least one or more outcomes. However results of evaluations with the TREND and CLEAR-NPT checklists generally showed a remarkable lack of description in the studies. Furthermore, there was the problem of heterogeneity, and we were therefore not able to perform a meta-analysis.
conclusionBecause there was insufficient evidence on aquatic exercise due to poor methodological and reporting quality and heterogeneity of nRCTs, we were unable to offer any conclusions about the effects of this intervention. However, we were able to identify problems with current nRCTs of aquatic exercise, and propose a strategy of strengthening study quality, stressing the importance of study feasibility as a future research agenda objective.
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