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Table 5 Summary of narrative analyses of treatments for Congenital Muscular Torticollis

From: The effectiveness and safety of conservative interventions for positional plagiocephaly and congenital muscular torticollis: a synthesis of systematic reviews and guidance

Author

Follow-up time-point

Intervention Vs Control

C. Sp. PROM

Effect

Level of evidence

Amstar

Stretching Exercises

 Heidenreich et al. 2018 [25]

3 weeks where reported

Practitioner led stretching Vs Mixed (not reported)

Narrative

Favourable

Moderate

5

Manual therapy

 Brand et al. 2005 [24]

8 weeks

No studies identified for CMT/Plagio/KISS

No data available

N/A

N/A

3

 Driehuis et al., 2019a [4]

8 weeks

Spinal mobilization + physical therapy Vs physical therapy only

In both groups torticollis positively changed (IV: 80% improvement, C: 81.3%).

No significant difference between groups (p:0.85).

Very low quality

8

 Parnell Prevost et al. 2019a [13]

8 weeks

Manual Therapy + physio Vs physio only

Narrative

Inconclusive

(unfavourable)

Moderate

7

  1. aParnell Prevost et al. 2019 and Driehuis et al. 2019 included the same study [26] but rated the level of evidence differently