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SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019

The Effect of Virtual Reality Games on the Gross Motor Skills of Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Zhanbing Ren, Jinlong Wu

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Synthesis in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04529343 (Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-Based Upper Extremity Rehabilitation in Patients With Cerebral Palsy), which is not on this map. Cited by 27 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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27citing papers in PubMed, 8 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT04529343 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2020, after this paper: background citation

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality-Based Upper Extremity Rehabilitation in Patients With Cerebral Palsy

TypeinterventionalSponsorIstanbul UniversityRan2020 to 2020Enrolled40ConditionsCerebral Palsy, Upper Extremity ParesisArmsVirtual reality mediated upper extremity rehabilitation, Classical exercise therapy for upper extremities
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zhanbing RenDepartment of Physical Education, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518061, China. rzb@szu.edu.cn.
Jinlong WuDepartment of Physical Education, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518061, China. 1800371011@email.szu.edu.cn.
Shenzhen University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review aimed to systematically evaluate the rehabilitatitive effect of Virtual Reality Games (VRGs) for gross motor skills of children with cerebral palsy (CP), and to give scientific grounds for the formulation of rehabilitation therapy for these children. To this end, the literature in Chinese databases (CNKI and Wanfang Data) as well as the databases of other countries (Web of Science, PubMed, EBSCOhost, Informit, Scopus, Science Direct and ProQuest) from the establishment dates of these databases to June 3rd 2019 was retrieved in order to collect randomized controlled trials with regard to the intervention effect of VRGs and traditional therapy on gross motor skills of children with CP, and the literature was screened as per inclusion and exclusion criteria. The PEDro scale was then used to evaluate the methodological quality of the included literature, and the software Review Manager 5.3 was employed to analyze the combined effect size. As a result, 7 randomized controlled trials and 234 children with CP were included. Meta-analysis showed that VRGs could improve gross motor skills of children with CP. Combined effect size of gross motor skills

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Games, RecreationalPhysical Therapy ModalitiesVirtual RealityCerebral PalsyChildHumansMotor SkillsRandomized Controlled Trials as Topiccerebral palsygross motor skillvirtual reality games

Identifiers

PMID31614990
PMCPMC6843701
OpenAlexW2979776800

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