Reassessment of systematic analysis of tele-rehabilitation effects in patients with spinal cord injury

Objective To analyze the systematic evaluation of tele-rehabilitation in patients with spinal cord injury.

Methods Systematic reviews on tele-rehabilitation of spinal cord injury patients in PubMed, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Embase, JBI, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP database and Chinese biomedical literature database were searched by computer. The retrieval period was from the establishment of the database to March 2023. Two researchers conducted independent literature screening and data extraction, and evaluated the quality of jurisprudence and evidence.

Results A total of 14 literatures were included, of which 3 were medium quality, 10 were low quality, and 1 was very low quality. The overall methodological quality level was low. Among the 38 evidence bodies, there were 7 evidences of medium quality, 19 evidences of low quality and 12 evidences of very low quality.

Conclusion Tele-rehabilitation has a positive effect in improving the balance ability, pain, stress injury and quality of life of patients with spinal cord injury, but the quality of the methodologies included in the study and the quality of evidence are low. In the future, high-quality, large sample and scientifically rigorous studies need to be designed for further verification.