Deflorin, Carlina and Hohenauer, Erich and Stoop, Rahel and van Daele, Ulrike and Clijsen, Ron and Taeymans, Jan (2020) Physical Management of Scar Tissue: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine.
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Objective: The aim of this systematic review with meta-analysis was to describe the status on the effects of physical scar treatments on pain, pigmentation, pliability, pruritus, scar thickening, and surface area. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Subjects: Adults with any kind of scar tissue. Interventions: Physical scar management versus control or no scar management. Outcome measures: Pain, pigmentation, pliability, pruritus, surface area, scar thickness. Results: The overall results revealed that physical scar management is beneficial compared with the control treatment regarding the management of pain ( p = 0.012), pruritus ( p < 0.001), pigmentation ( p = 0.010), pliability ( p < 0.001), surface area ( p < 0.001), and thickness ( p = 0.022) of scar tissue in adults. The observed risk of bias was high for blinding of participants and personnel (47%) and low for other bias (100%). Conclusions: Physical scar management demonstrates moderate-to-strong effects on improvement of scar issues as related to signs and symptoms. These results show the importance of specific physical management of scar tissue.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Medicine and Dentistry Physical sciences |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Laboratorio di ricerca in riabilitazione |
| Depositing User: | Carlina Deflorin |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2020 08:24 |
| Last Modified: | 14 May 2021 11:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/11877 |
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