The Effectiveness of Neuromuscular Warmups for Lower Extremity Injury Prevention in Basketball: A Systematic Review

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Table 1 Study designs, USPSTF quality rating, analysis methods, and outcome measures assessed

Study	Study design	USPSTF quality rating	Analysis method	Outcome measures assessed
Study	Study design	USPSTF quality rating	Analysis method	All lower-extremity injuries	Ankle injuries	ACL injuries	Knee injuries (general)
Balance interventions
McGuine et al. [21]	Cluster RCT	Good quality	Multivariate Cox proportional hazards model of incidence rates		X
Cumps et al. [19]	Non-randomized controlled trial	Fair quality	T-test of relative risk		X
Emery et al. [29]	Cluster RCT	Good quality	Multivariate Poisson regression of relative risk	X	X
Eils et al. [28]	Cluster RCT	Good quality	Logistic regression of odds ratio		X
Riva et al. [22]	Prospective cohort	Poor quality	ANOVA of incidence rates	X^a	X		X
Multicomponent interventions
Hewett et al. [31]	Non-randomized controlled trial	Fair quality	χ² of incidence rates			X
Pfeiffer et al. [34]	Non-randomized controlled trial	Fair quality	Exact test of odds ratio			X^a
LaBella et al. [20]	Cluster RCT	Fair quality	Exact test of incidence rates	X^a	X^a		X^a
Longo et al. [32]	Cluster RCT	Fair quality	Exact test of odds ratio	X	X		X
Aerts et al. [26]	Cluster RCT	Good quality	Multilevel Cox proportional hazards model of hazard ratio	X
Bonato et al. [27]	Cluster RCT	Good quality	χ² of incidence rates	X^a	X	X	X
Foss et al. [30]	Cluster RCT	Fair quality	Mixed-model comparison of incidence rates	X^a	X		X
Omi et al. [33]	Prospective Cohort	Poor quality	χ² of relative risk			X

X: reported in original study
X^a: not reported in original study, but a basketball-specific risk ratio could be computed based on basketball-specific numbers of injuries and athletes