Review Article

Open versus Closed Kinetic Chain Exercises following an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Table 2

Excluded studies.

StudyReason for exclusion

Bird and Bulkeley 2010 [19]Review paper
Chrzan et al. 2013 [20]Intervention was not OKC versus CKC
Davis 1996 [21]Population was not postsurgical
Dolan 2010 [22]Not an RCT
Fitzgerald 1997 [23]Not an RCT
Hooper et al. 2002 [24]Intervention was not OKC versus CKC
Jenkins et al. 1997 [25]Population was not postsurgical
Keays et al. 2013 [26]Population was not postsurgical
Laboute et al. 2008 [27]Intervention was not OKC versus CKC
Lage et al. 1995 [28]Population was not postsurgical
Mikkelsen et al. 2000 [29]Intervention was not OKC versus CKC
Neeter et al. 2006 [30]Intervention was not OKC versus CKC
Perry et al. 2005 [13]Population was not postsurgical
Petschnig and Baron 1997 [31]Intervention was not OKC versus CKC
Rennison 1996 [32]Not an RCT
Ross et al. 2001 [33]Not an RCT
Tagesson et al. 2008 [34]Population was not postsurgical