Abstract
BackgroundThe relationship between motor performance and back pain in children and adolescents remains unclear. This article describes the protocol for a systematic review to summarize the knowledge about the association between motor performance, such as agility, flexibility, balance, strength, muscle endurance, and cardiorespiratory fitness, and back pain. Thus, our aim is to identify the influence of motor performance on back pain among children and adolescents.MethodsTwo independent researchers will search MEDLINE, Scopus, Embase, SPORTDiscus, and CINAHL databases, with no period or language restrictions. We will include cross-sectional, cohort, case-control, and controlled clinical trial studies based on the following criteria: (a) participants from 6 to 19 years of age, (b) assessment of motor performance, (c) assessment of back pain, and (d) report measures of associations between motor performance and back pain. Study quality and risk of bias will be assessed using an adapted version of the Downs and Black instrument. Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations will be used to assess the strength of the body of evidence. Meta-analyses of association measures will be performed for each type of motor performance, separately for different study types. The results will be reported using forest to show the pooled effect of findings and funnel plots to assess precision of the data. If studies are not homogeneous, results from the meta-analyses will not be reported. Associations will then be synthesized descriptively using a pragmatic approach.DiscussionThis systematic review will provide critical insights into the association between motor performance and back pain among children and adolescents; this information may help support clinical practice guidelines as well as public health programs.Ethics and disseminationProtocol was written according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA).Systematic review registrationPROSPERO CRD42020178496
Highlights
GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables
Ethics and dissemination: Protocol was written according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA)
Our study aims to identify the influence of motor performance on Back pain (BP) in children and adolescents and to investigate the differences between sexes and age groups
Summary
GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. J Clin Epidemiol. 2011;64:383–94.41. GRADE evidence profiles and summary of findings tables. The relationship between motor performance and back pain in children and adolescents remains unclear. This article describes the protocol for a systematic review to summarize the knowledge about the association between motor performance, such as agility, flexibility, balance, strength, muscle endurance, and cardiorespiratory fitness, and back pain. Motor performance components are essential to psychological and social development in children and adolescents [26] and have been recognized as an important determinant of current and future health status [27, 28]. Recent reviews [1, 2, 29] evaluating potential risk factors for BP pain in children and young adults reported that there were few studies on components of motor performance, including agility, strength in the lower extremity, hand grip strength, and cardiorespiratory fitness, and that these relationships are unclear. Motor performance is an important health parameter that is positively associated with physical activity [30]; it may be related to injuries [31]
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