Effects of spinal stabilization exercises delivered using telerehabilitation on outcomes in patients with chronic neck pain: a randomized controlled trial

Effects of Telerehabilitation on Pain and Disability in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Finally, 11 records were full-text screened, and three were excluded due to the control intervention. Finally, eight manuscripts were included in the review [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

“…The characteristics of the sample and the methodological evaluation of the included studies are shown in Table 1. The studies, published between 2017 and 2023, included randomized clinical trial designs [22,[24][25][26][27][28][29] and a pilot randomized trial study [23]. The total sample of patients included in the studies was 689, with a gender distribution in the combined sample of 61.92% female.…”

“…Regarding the methodological quality of the studies evaluated using the Downs and Black quality assessment method, three articles were classified as good [22,25,26], while five were classified as fair [23,24,26,28,29]. Additionally, the risk of bias in all the studies [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] was assessed using the RoB-2 tool (Figure 2), which concluded that three of the articles had a high risk of bias [22,24,28], and the remaining had some concerns [23,[25][26][27]29]. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

“…Additionally, the risk of bias in all the studies [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] was assessed using the RoB-2 tool (Figure 2), which concluded that three of the articles had a high risk of bias [22,24,28], and the remaining had some concerns [23,[25][26][27]29]. [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29].…”

“…The most commonly used interventions are telerehabilitation programs based on therapeutic exercise [22,23,25,26,28,29]. The intervention proposed by Thongtipmak et al [24] was based on stretching and breathing exercises.…”