Physical therapy for muscle strengthening in individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Aline Alves de SouzaStephano Tomaz da SilvaLorenna Raquel Dantas de MacedoDiogo Neres AiresKaren de Medeiros PondofeLuciana Protásio de MeloRicardo Alexsandro de Medeiros ValentimTatiana Souza RibeiroPublished in: PloS one (2024)
Randomized, non-randomized, and quasi-experimental clinical trials assessing individuals with ALS of both sexes, aged 18 years or older, who have received motor interventions for muscle strengthening considering all practices that can lead to increased strength, endurance, power and muscular hypertrophy will be included. No restriction on language, location, or publication date will be applied. MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Library (CENTRAL), SPORTDiscus, and Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) databases will be searched. The US National Institutes of Health Ongoing, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the reference lists of included studies will also be searched. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts and extract data from included studies. The methodological quality of the included studies will be assessed by the PEDro scale and the certainty of the evidence by the GRADE approach. Disagreements will be resolved by a third researcher. Findings will be presented in text and table formats. A meta-analysis will compare the effects of motor interventions for muscle strengthening versus placebo or other interventions.
Keyphrases
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- skeletal muscle
- double blind
- phase iii
- clinical trial
- physical activity
- placebo controlled
- open label
- case control
- healthcare
- phase ii
- primary care
- quality improvement
- public health
- mental health
- randomized controlled trial
- oxidative stress
- big data
- electronic health record
- resistance training
- health information
- emergency department
- machine learning
- social media
- middle aged
- artificial intelligence
- deep learning
- single cell