The Effectiveness of Conservative Interventions on Pain, Function, and Quality of Life in Adults with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders and Shoulder Symptoms: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To synthesize the evidence on conservative interventions for shoulder symptoms in hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD).

Data sources

A literature search was conducted using data sources Medline, PEDro, CINAHL, AMED, Elsevier Scopus, and the Cochrane Library from January 1998 to June 2023.

Study selection

The review included primary empirical research on adults diagnosed with hEDS or HSD who experienced pain and/or mechanical shoulder symptoms and underwent conservative interventions. Initially, 17,565 studies were identified, which decreased to 9668 after duplicate removal. After title and abstract screening by 2 independent authors, 9630 studies were excluded. The full texts of the remaining 38 were assessed an

SUBMITTER: Higo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11447556 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature