Umbrella Review of Shock Wave Therapy for Post-Stroke Spasticity, 17 Systematic Reviews

An umbrella review synthesizing evidence up to May 2025 on extracorporeal shock wave therapy for post-stroke spasticity. It includes 17 systematic reviews and meta-analyses, with quality assessments using AMSTAR 2 and GRADE. The review was authored by Jiayi Chang and published on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Assessing the efficacy of shock wave therapy for reducing spasticity based on aggregated review findings.
• Evaluating the methodological quality of existing systematic reviews using AMSTAR 2 ratings.
• Mapping evidence overlap and certainty for clinical outcomes like sensorimotor function and pain.
• Identifying research gaps for future high-quality studies on post-stroke interventions.

Strengths

• Includes 17 systematic reviews and meta-analyses, providing a broad evidence base.
• Applies standardized quality assessment tools (AMSTAR 2 and GRADE) to evaluate included reviews.
• Evidence mapping identified 136 nodes, quantifying study overlap.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 66.7 KB document; its scope is limited to a textual review summary.
• Row and column counts are unknown, limiting suitability assessment for structured analysis.
• The review notes the generally low methodological quality of included studies and potential geographic bias, which may limit evidence generalizability.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Jiayi Chang.

Collection Method

Umbrella review methodology, searching eight databases up to May 2025.

Time Range

Evidence synthesized up to May 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 04:11:57.

Geography

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