Systematic Review on Effectiveness of shoulder taping in Hemiplegia

If this is beneficial then write up a protocol on it and distribute this to all the stroke doctors and hospitals in the world. Failure to do so should be grounds for firing.   We have to start making stroke professionals accountable for their failures to get us 100% recovered.

Systematic Review on Effectiveness of shoulder taping in Hemiplegia

Hariharasudhan Ravichandran*^,1,Correspondence information about the author Hariharasudhan RavichandranEmail the author Hariharasudhan Ravichandran

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Balamurugan Janakiraman^†

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Subramanian Sundaram^‡

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Berihu Fisseha*

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Tsiwaye Gebreyesus*

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Asmare Yitayeh Gelaw^†

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2019.03.021

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Shoulder pain and subluxation are the commonly encountered problems among subjects with hemiplegia. Rehabilitating the shoulder following stroke is a challenging task among physiotherapists in rehabilitation set up. There is a need to validate the effectiveness of externally applied taping materials in hemiplegic shoulder.

Objective

This systematic review analyses the efficacy of taping on hemiplegic shoulder in terms of alleviating pain and managing subluxation.

Methods

Systematic review of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) was conducted to determine the effects of taping on hemiplegic shoulder. Articles were electronically searched from the year 2000 to 2017 in the 4 databases, Google scholar, CINAHL, Pubmed, and Pedro. Reviewers graded the papers according to Lloyd-Smith's hierarchy of evidence scale. Papers were quality appraised using a systematic review of RCT tool developed by National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (United States), named as quality assessment of controlled intervention studies tool.

Results

Eight papers were included, totaling 132 participants. All the RCT's included in this review were good quality. There was a significant effect on taping method for reduction of pain and subluxation among subjects with stroke.

Conclusions

This systematic review provides sufficient evidence to suggest taping is a beneficial method for reducing pain and shoulder subluxation among stroke subjects.