Effectiveness of interventions for treating apophysitis in children and adolescents: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Overuse injuries are reported to be more common than acute trauma in children and adolescents, causing pain and reduced function. The most common is apophysitis - a traction injury to the apophysis in growing individuals. The duration of symptoms reported in the literature is between 6 weeks to 6 months or more. The objective of this systematic review and network meta-analysis is to compare the effectiveness and safety of all available treatments for any type of apophysitis in children and adolescents.

Methods/design

We will conduct a systematic review to retrieve all relevant studies applying a comparative design. Searches will be made in the Cochrane CENTRAL, MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and SportDiscus databases and via reference searching. The efficacy of treatment

SUBMITTER: Midtiby SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6198434 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature