Does aquatic exercise relieve pain in adults with neurologic or musculoskeletal disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Authors
Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2009
CRD SUMMARY: This review assessed the effectiveness of aquatic exercise in relieving pain, mostly in patients with musculoskeletal disease. The authors concluded that there was a small improvement in pain with aquatic exercise compared to no treatment, but no difference between aquatic exercise and land exercise. There was insufficient evidence to confidently conclude that aquatic exercise was better than no treatment. Overall, the authors' conclusions were likely to be reliable.
Epistemonikos ID: 9428b06941f5ae98413b20515db93fa9246e279c
First added on: Jun 06, 2012