Neural Plasticity

Review Article

Functional and Structural Brain Plasticity Enhanced by Motor and Cognitive Rehabilitation in Multiple Sclerosis

Table 4

Included articles rating according to the PEDro scale [25].
  #1#2#3#4#5#6#7#8#9#10#11Score
Articles on motor rehabilitationRasova et al. (2005) [26]✓✗✗✓✗✗✗✓✓✓✓6/11
Ibrahim et al. (2011) [28]✓✗✗✗✗✗✓✓✓✓✓6/11
Tomassini et al. (2012) [20]✓✗✗✗✗✗✗✓✓N/A✓5/11
Bonzano et al. (2014) [29]✓✓✓✓✗✗✗✓✓✓✓8/11
Prosperini et al. (2014) [30]✓✓✓✓✗✗✓✗✓✓✓8/11
Rasova et al. (2015) [31]✓✗✗✗✗✗✗✓✓✗✓4/11
Articles on cognitive rehabilitationPenner and Kappos (2006) [32]✓✗✗✗✗✗✗✓✓N/A✓4/11
Sastre-Garriga et al. (2011) [33]✓✗✗✗✗✗✓✓✓N/A✓5/11
Chiaravalloti et al. (2012) [34]✓✓✓✓✓✗✓✓✓✓✓10/11
Ernst et al. (2012) [35]✓✗✗✗✗✗✗✓✓✓✓5/11
Filippi et al. (2012) [36]✓✓✓✓✗✗✓✓✓✓✓9/11
Leavitt et al. (2012) [39]✓✓✓✓✓✗✓✓✓✓✓10/11
Cerasa et al. (2013) [37]✓✓✓✓✓✗✓✓✓✓✓10/11
Parisi et al. (2014) [38]✓✓✓✓✗✗✓✓✓✓✓9/11
Bonavita et al. (2015) [40]✓✗✗✓✗✗✓✓✓✓✓7/11
De Giglio et al. (2015) [41]✓✓✓✓✗✗✓✗✓✓✓7/11
N/A: data not available.
Criterion 1: specified eligibility criteria.
Criterion 2: randomized allocation.
Criterion 3: concealed allocation.
Criterion 4: similarity between groups at baseline.
Criterion 5: blinding of subjects.
Criterion 6: blinding of therapists.
Criterion 7: blinding of assessors.
Criterion 8: outcome measures obtained from at least 85% of initially allocated subjects.
Criterion 9: all received treatment, or key outcome, was analyzed by “intention-to-treat.”
Criterion 10: between-group statistical comparison.
Criterion 11: both point and variability measures provided.