Table 2

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria

     • study includes children age 0 – 18 inclusive; and
     • study investigates manipulation in a therapeutic clinical context; and
     • study was published in a peer reviewed publication, or was reported at Conference Proceedings; or
     • relevant systematic review.

Exclusion criteria

     • descriptive studies (ie surveys) that do not investigate manipulation in a therapeutic clinical context,
     • studies in which a small number of pediatric subjects were a part of a larger adult trial, and the results are not reported separately,
     • abstracts from conference proceedings which were later published in the scholarly literature.

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