Table 1.
Summary keywords employed in the search strategy.
Fig 1.
Study screening flow chart for studies identified in the systematic literature review process.
Fig 2.
Methodological quality of studies using SYRCLE’s risk of bias assessment tool.
(A) The risk of sequence generation, baseline characteristics, and other biases was assessed for the studies included in this review. Eight categories have a low risk of bias in more than 50% of the studies, except of outcome assessment blinding and other sources of bias. (B) Studies fulfilling the criteria of: (1) Sequence generation; (2) Baseline characteristics; (3) Allocation concealment; (4) Random housing; (5) Caregiver/investigator blinding; (6) Random outcome assessment; (7) Outcome assessment blinding; (8) Incomplete outcome data; (9) Selective outcome reporting; (10) Other sources of bias.
Table 2.
Terminology and definition.
Table 3.
Summary of effects of muscle stretching on inflammatory markers in animal models.
Table 4.
Summary of effects of skin and surrounding connective tissue stretching on inflammatory markers in animal models.