The effect of whole-body vibration on lower extremity function in children with cerebral palsy: A meta-analysis

• Published in: PloS one 2023-03, Vol.18 (3), p.e0282604-e0282604
• Main Authors: Cai, Xiaoye, Qian, Guoping, Cai, Siyuan, Wang, Feng, Da, Yingjuan, Ossowski, Zbigniew
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Ankle; Bias; Biology and Life Sciences; Bone surgery; Care and treatment; Cerebral palsied children; Cerebral Palsy; Child; Children; Children & youth; Clinical trials; Confidence intervals; Continuity (mathematics); Decision making; Evaluation; Extremities, Lower; Health aspects; Humans; Joints (anatomy); Leg; Literature reviews; Lower Extremity; Medicine and Health Sciences; Meta-analysis; Methods; Muscles; Paralysis; Patients; Physical Examination; Physical Sciences; Physical therapy; Physical Therapy Modalities; Physiological aspects; Range of motion; Rehabilitation; Research and Analysis Methods; Risk assessment; Therapeutics, Physiological; Training; Vibration; Vibration - therapeutic use; Vibration analysis; Walking
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0282604

The aim of this meta-analysis was to evaluate the effect of whole-body vibration training on lower limb motor function in children with cerebral palsy in randomized-controlled trials (RCTs). Two independent reviewers systematically searched the records of nine databases (PubMed, Cochrane, Web of Science, EMBASE, CNKI, etc.) from inception to December 2022. Tools from the Cochrane Collaboration were used to assess risk of bias. Standard meta-analyses were performed using Stata 16.0 and Revman 5.3. For continuous variables, the arms difference was calculated as the weighted mean difference (WMD) between the values before and after the intervention and its 95% confidence interval (95% CI). Of the 472 studies identified, 13 (total sample size 451 participants) met the inclusion criteria. Meta-analysis showed that WBV training could effectively improve GMFM88-D [WMD = 2.46, 95% CI (1.26, 3.67), P