| Title |
Compressive cryotherapy versus cryotherapy alone in patients undergoing knee surgery: a meta-analysis
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| Published in |
SpringerPlus, July 2016
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| DOI | 10.1186/s40064-016-2690-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Mingzhi Song, Xiaohong Sun, Xiliang Tian, Xianbin Zhang, Tieying Shi, Ran Sun, Wei Dai |
| Abstract |
This study aims to conduct a meta-analysis to identify and compare the effectiveness of compressive cryotherapy and cryotherapy alone for patients undergoing knee surgery. Postoperative management is an important guarantee for the success of surgery. Cryotherapy and compression are two common nursing techniques after knee surgery, and are considered to be effective for postoperative clinical symptoms such as local pain and swelling. However, no previous meta-analyses have compared the effectiveness of compressive cryotherapy and cryotherapy alone in patients undergoing knee surgery. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). We conducted a search in MEDLINE (via Pubmed, 1990-2014), EMBASE (via Elsevier, 1990-2014), Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library, 1990-2014), CINAHL (1990-2014) and China National Knowledge Infrastructure (1990-2014) databases for RCTs published in English and Chinese. The primary outcome measure of interest was visual analog scale and girth measure. Finally, a meta-analysis was carried out using RevMan 5.3. Among the 593 RCTs, 10 RCTs were selected and included into this study. These studies included 522 patients who underwent knee surgery. Patients who underwent compressive cryotherapy tended to have less pain than patients who underwent cryotherapy alone at POD2 and POD3, while compressive cryotherapy had a strong tendency towards less swelling over cryotherapy alone at POD1 and POD2. However, there was no significant difference between compressive cryotherapy and cryotherapy alone at the intermediate stage of rehabilitation after knee surgery. All adverse reactions were recorded in all included RCTs. Current evidence suggests that compressive cryotherapy is beneficial to patients undergoing knee surgery at the early rehabilitation stage. At the last stage, the effectiveness of compressive cryotherapy and cryotherapy alone were found to be similar. |
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| Student > Bachelor | 38 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 12% |
| Other | 15 | 9% |
| Researcher | 14 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 7% |
| Other | 25 | 16% |
| Unknown | 37 | 23% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 41 | 26% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 37 | 23% |
| Sports and Recreations | 18 | 11% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 5% |
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