SynthesisGerman medical science : GMS e-journal2011
Climbing for preventing and treating health problems: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
Synthesis in German medical science : GMS e-journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05983887 (The Effect of Therapeutic Climbing on Muscle Strength, Tone and Balance in Hemiplegic Children), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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The Effect of Therapeutic Climbing on Muscle Strength, Tone and Balance in Hemiplegic Children: a Preliminary Single-blind Randomised Controlled Trial
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- Coordination in Climbing: Effect of Skill, Practice and Constraints Manipulation.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2016Pooled it
- Climb up! Head up! Climbing improves posture in Parkinson's disease. A secondary analysis from a randomized controlled trial.Clinical rehabilitation · 2023Trial
- Is bouldering-psychotherapy a cost-effective way to treat depression when compared to group cognitive behavioral therapy - results from a randomized controlled trial.BMC health services research · 2021Trial
- Bouldering psychotherapy is effective in enhancing perceived self-efficacy in people with depression: results from a multicenter randomized controlled trial.BMC psychology · 2021Trial
- Bouldering psychotherapy is more effective in the treatment of depression than physical exercise alone: results of a multicentre randomised controlled intervention study.BMC psychiatry · 2020Trial
- Perceptions of Therapeutic Climbing for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Neurorehabilitation: A Qualitative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Sports and the Pandemic: The Impact of COVID-19 on Active Living and Life Satisfaction of Climbers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Origin, Application and Mechanism of Therapeutic Climbing: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Effects and Environmental Features of Mountainous Urban Greenways (MUGs) on Physical Activity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- A randomised controlled trial on effectiveness and feasibility of sport climbing in Parkinson's disease.NPJ Parkinson's disease · 2021Article
- Long-term effects of bouldering psychotherapy on depression: benefits can be maintained across a 12-month follow-up.Heliyon · 2019Article
- Article
- [Current state of the scientific literature on effects of therapeutic climbing on mental health - conclusion: a lot to do].Neuropsychiatrie : Klinik, Diagnostik, Therapie und Rehabilitation : Organ der Gesellschaft Osterreichischer Nervenarzte und Psychiater · 2019Review
- Non-Specific Low Back Pain.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2017Review
- To be active through indoor-climbing: an exploratory feasibility study in a group of children with cerebral palsy and typically developing children.BMC neurology · 2017Article
- Effects of Sport Climbing on Multiple Sclerosis.Frontiers in physiology · 2017Review
- Comparative analysis of trunk muscle activities in climbing of during upright climbing at different inclination angles.Journal of physical therapy science · 2015Article
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectiveTo summarize the best available evidence on effectiveness of therapeutic or sport climbing in preventing or treating health problems.
methodsWe searched Medline, Embase, CENTRAL, PsycINFO, PEDro, OTseeker and SportDiscus for randomized controlled trials published up to December 26, 2010. We included all trials assessing patient-relevant outcomes. Two reviewers independently selected relevant studies, assessed their methodological quality and extracted data. Quality of evidence was rated using the GRADE system. Data were entered into RevMan 5 to calculate effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals where appropriate.
resultsEligible for inclusion were four RCTs studying the effectiveness of climbing in (a) geriatric patients, (b) adults with multiple sclerosis, (c) adults with chronic low-back pain and (d) children with disabilities and poor motor function. The sample sizes ranged between 20 and 95. All trials had major methodological limitations. We found very low quality evidence that therapeutic climbing may improve activities of daily living in geriatric patients compared to physiotherapy as measured by the Barthel index (difference in mean change score: 2.32 [95%-CI: 0.45 to 4.19]). We found very low quality evidence that therapeutic climbing compared to standard exercise therapy may improve physical functioning (difference in mean change score: 16.15 [95%-CI: 4.45 to 27.85]) and general physical health (13.14 [95%-CI: 3.61 to 22.67]) as measured by the SF-36 in adults with chronic low back-pain.
conclusionsEvidence for the effectiveness of therapeutic climbing is limited to small trials at high risk of bias. The effects of therapeutic climbing are therefore unclear.
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