ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Effect of Physical Therapy Modalities on Quality of Life of Head and Neck Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- The effects of aerobic and resistance training across eight cancer types: a systematic review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Pooled it
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- Use of Instrumental Physical Therapies and Manual Therapy in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review.Cancers · 2026Review
- Impact of Physical Rehabilitation on Endometriosis and Adenomyosis-Related Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Musculoskeletal Impairments and Dysfunction in Individuals with Head and Neck Cancer Following Surgery with Neck Dissection-A Systematic Review.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Individualized home training in head and neck cancer patients is safe and has positive short- and medium-term effects -results of a multicenter, single-arm intervention trial (OSHO #94).Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- 'Eating with Others': planning, developing and optimising a self-management intervention to promote social eating for patients living with and beyond head and neck cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
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- Effectiveness of Comprehensive Intervention Programme on Quality of life, fatigue, self-efficacy, and psychosocial distress among head and neck cancer patients receiving radiotherapy.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2024Article
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- Survival-weighted quality of life profiles in patients treated for laryngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers.Journal of Cancer · 2024Article
- Rehabilitation Nursing Program in Oncological Surgery of the Head and Neck: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Portuguese journal of public health · 2023Article
- Correction: Burgos-Mansilla et al. Effect of Physical Therapy Modalities on Quality of Life of Head and Neck Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Health Literacy and Adherence to Clinical Recommendations in Head and Neck Cancer.Health literacy research and practice · 2023Article
- Moving beyond Definitive Therapy: Increasing Physical Activity in Survivors of Cancers of the Head and Neck.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2022Review
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The objective was to describe the effectiveness of different physical therapy modalities to improve Quality of Life (QoL) in Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) survivors. PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL and Cochrane Library were searched for randomized clinical controlled trials published until 30 April 2020. Risk of bias assessment and meta-analysis were conducted using the Cochrane tools. A total of 251 records were retrieved, and 10 met the inclusion criteria. Interventions whose parameters focus on a 12-week exercise programs of aerobic activity (walking) or Progressive Resistance Training (PRT) for the whole body are effective and safe modalities improving QoL in HNC survivors. Electrophysical agents did not show significant results between groups. As for the assessment of methodological quality, 4 of the 10 articles included had a high risk of overall bias. Only five articles provided sufficient information to conduct a meta-analysis for exercise program intervention on QoL, showing a tendency in favor of intervention group, even when the global results did not show statistically significant improvements (pooled Cohen's d 0.15; 95% CI: -0.25 to 0.54; I
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