Review Article

Massage Therapy for Neck and Shoulder Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 2

PEDro scale of quality for included trials.

StudyEligibility criteriaRandom allocationConcealed allocationSimilar at baselineSubjects blindedTherapists blindedAssessors blinded<15% dropoutsIntention-to-treat analysisBetween-group
comparisons
Point measures and variability dataTotal

Irnich et al. [8]110100111117
Dyson-Hudson et al. [9]111100110117
Cen et al. [10]110100110116
van den Dolder and Roberts [11]111100111118
Mok and Woo [12]110100110116
Fryer and Hodgson [13]110010101116
Meseguer et al. [14]110101111118
Blikstad and Gemmell [15]111110100106
Zuo et al. [16]110100111117
Sherman et al. [17]111100111118
Buttagat et al. [18]111100111118
Zhang et al. [19]111100011117

0 = not meet the criteria; 1 = meet the criteria.