This is the final Cerebral Palsy & HBOT Research Rundown featuring Tom Fox. Tom explains that this study, Hyperbaric Oxygen in Children with Cerebral Palsy, A Systematic Review of Effectiveness and Safety, is pure garbage.
Be sure to check out Tom’s other Research Rundowns on the Cerebral Palsy and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Episode 24, 25, and 26.
Highlights:
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This article misidentified the articles listed as being randomized controlled trials. They weren’t.
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it picked five of the randomized controlled trials, and totally misrepresented the results of those controlled trials.
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The third author, Dr. Guy Letellier, did not agree with the published article or the evaluation of the results, and ended up being a dissenting author on this paper.
- Tom calls this “a pure example of garbage in, garbage out.”
Read Hyperbaric oxygen in children with cerebral palsy – A systematic review of effectiveness and safety
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