A systematic Review: Aquatic Therapy on Arthritis

The following key words were searched using the Web of Science database: “aqua*” AND “exercise” AND “*arthritis”. The year of the publication was not restricted to any specific year. The language of the studies was limited to English and the resulting database was extracted on an excel file. After the extraction of the database, studies without the words aquatic, exercise or arthritis in the titles were excluded from the study. Meta-analyses and systematic reviews were excluded from the database as well. Studies not relating to aquatic therapy and any form of arthritis were not included. Only studies in which subjects selected were diagnosed with any form of arthritis were included. Reports where subjects were not inside the water performing an exercise protocol was excluded. Reports that consisted of both aquatic therapy and class education outside the pool were also included. There was no exclusion in water temperature used in the studies. Studies were individually reviewed for relevance and then categorized into the age of the subjects used, the type of arthritis subjects were diagnosed with, the number of aquatic exercise training performed each week, the length of the aquatic exercise training and the span of the experiment. Studies that were not restricted to subjects of one type of arthritis were independently classified. Experiments performed on subjects with a large range of age were independently classified. The frequency of studies performed on different forms of arthritis, age groups were counted. The number of studies with different frequency of aquatic exercise training a week, the length of the training and the total span the experiment took were also characteristics of interest.本研究依托科学网（Web of Science）数据库执行检索，检索式为："aqua*" AND "exercise" AND "*arthritis"，未限定文献发表年份，仅纳入英文语种的研究，最终将检索结果导出为Excel文件。完成数据库导出后，剔除标题中未包含"aquatic"、"exercise"或"arthritis"的文献；同时排除荟萃分析（Meta-analysis）与系统综述（Systematic review）类文献。未涉及水疗（aquatic therapy）与任意类型关节炎的研究均不予纳入，仅纳入研究对象经诊断患任意类型关节炎的文献。排除研究对象未在水环境中完成运动方案的研究报告，同时纳入同时包含泳池内水疗与泳池外课堂教育的研究报告。本研究未对实验中使用的水温设置限制条件。随后对所有文献逐一开展相关性审核并按以下维度进行分类：研究对象的年龄区间、研究对象所确诊的关节炎类型、每周开展的水中运动训练（aquatic exercise training）频次、单次水中运动训练的时长，以及实验总周期。未限定研究对象仅患单一类型关节炎的文献将被独立归类；针对年龄跨度较大的研究对象开展的实验亦将被独立归类。统计针对不同类型关节炎、不同年龄组开展的研究频次；不同每周水中运动训练频次、不同训练时长以及不同实验总周期对应的研究数量，亦为本数据集的核心关注特征。