30.11.2021 | Letter to the Editor
Clinical utility of ultrasonography imaging in musculoskeletal conditions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (Response to letter to editor)
verfasst von:
Summaiya Zareen Shaikh, Tejashree Dabholkar, Ajit Dabholkar, Anant Patil, Uroosa Naireen Shaikh
Erschienen in:
Journal of Medical Ultrasonics
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Ausgabe 1/2022
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Excerpt
We would like to thank Dr Chang and colleagues for their interest in our paper and their comments on our systematic review and meta-analysis. In their letter to the editor, Dr Chang notes potential concerns regarding the inclusion criteria and analytic methods of the systematic review. We agree that the article does not focus on the work done by physical therapists alone; hence, we chose a broad yet specific title suitable to the eligibility criteria. As there are a limited number of studies performed by rehabilitation specialists and a radiologist, addition of keywords like ‘rehabilitation’ ‘biofeedback’ or ‘physical therapists’ for a matter of fact would have narrowed our inclusion criteria. We included all studies conducted by ‘
non-physician rehabilitation providers’ including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and rehabilitation therapists. A scoping review by Roll published in 2015 is on similar lines, highlighting the clinical utility of this useful tool by non-radiologists [
1]. Nevertheless, we did not completely exclude the work of radiologists. Note that 3 of the 16 studies included in our review were performed with a radiologist (Dabholkar [
2], Harput [
3], Chowdhury [
4]). …