Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Motor Imagery for Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis

Patricio Alba-Quesada's 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates the effects of combined motor imagery and action observation on pain, mobility, and disability in knee or hip osteoarthritis. The analysis includes 19 randomized controlled trials involving 706 participants, with evidence certainty ranging from very low to moderate. The dataset is a 288.8 KB DOCX document summarizing the review's methods and findings.

Use Cases

• Summarizing clinical evidence for motor imagery interventions based on the review's aggregated results.
• Informing rehabilitation protocol design based on reported outcomes like pain, Timed Up and Go, and WOMAC scores.
• Identifying research gaps for future trials based on the noted variability and moderate certainty of evidence.

Strengths

• Includes 19 randomized controlled trials with a total of 706 participants.
• Reports specific standardized mean difference (SMD) effect sizes with confidence intervals for key outcomes like pain and disability.
• Uses established methodological tools (Cochrane Risk of Bias 2.0, GRADE) for quality assessment.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is a single 288.8 KB document, representing a limited scope of aggregated findings rather than raw trial data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Patricio Alba-Quesada.

Collection Method

Systematic review and meta-analysis of literature from Medline (PubMed), PEDro, Embase, Cochrane, and EBSCO through March 2026.

Time Range

Literature search conducted through March 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-21 15:45:15; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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