Non-Invasive Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Systematic Literature Review by Using Citation Network Analysis
Non-Invasive Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: Systematic Literature Review by Using Citation Network Analysis
Review Data
Purpose and Significance of the Study: This is a systematic literature review of the various non-invasive treatments for adolescent
idiopathic scoliosis (AIS), a disease whose etiopathogenesis is yet to be determined. The purpose
of this study is to summarize previous findings in this area, map the major
research clusters, summarize the general trends in the research and provide
potential areas of future research. A couple of similar studies in the current
literature and a couple of limitations aside, the precise
scope of the review, the updated information, and the citation network analysis
used (increasing the objectivity in the data) make this manuscript worth
publishing.
Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for
the journal Spine and
Surgery.
The errors in the manuscript are listed below –
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The 3rd paragraph in the
Discussion section seems problematic. Since this study has exclusively focused
on non-surgical treatments of AIS, the 10 most influential papers in this context would
anyway focus on the non-surgical options. So, the argument on which this
paragraph is based stands invalid.
In the Abstract section –
·
In the 1st sentence, “of” must be replaced
by “from” and “the” must be inserted before “spinal”.
·
In the 3rd sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “noninvasive”.
·
In the 6th sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “HistCite” and “UCINet”, “software” must be in plural and “referenced” must be replaced by
“referred to”.
·
In the 8th sentence, “on” must be
inserted at the end of the sentence.
·
In the 9th sentence, “independent
extraction of articles” must be replaced by “The articles were independently
extracted” and “selecting relevant articles of the field” may be removed as it
was previously mentioned.
·
In the 17th sentence, “a” must be
inserted before “few” and “nonrigid” must be written as “non-rigid”.
·
In the 18th sentence, “,” after “recently”
must be replaced by “;”.
In the Introduction section –
In the 3rd paragraph –
·
In the 2nd sentence, “,” must be
inserted after “stimulation”.
·
In the 4th sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “uncertainties”.
In the 4th paragraph –
·
In the 3rd sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “knowledge”.
In the 5th paragraph –
·
In the 5th sentence, “and” must be
replaced by “,”.
In the Methods section –
In the 1st paragraph –
·
The 1st sentence must be
reconstructed as “This study followed the research methodology of Colicchia
and Strozzi [14] and Wetzstein et al. [17]”.
In the 5th paragraph –
·
The meaning of the 4th sentence “No…study” is
not clear. It must be reconstructed.
·
In the 5th sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “3 authors”, “relevant”, “selected” and “non-operative”, “so as to”
must be replaced by “to”, “that” must be inserted before “all” and
“,” must be inserted after “AIS”.
·
In the last sentence, “were”
before “reached” must be replaced by “was”.
In the 6th paragraph –
·
In the 5th sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “journal”.
·
In the last sentence,
“related” must be replaced by “relevant”.
In the 7th paragraph –
·
In the 3rd sentence, “,” must be
inserted after “asking”.
In the 8th paragraph –
·
In the 3rd paragraph, “obtained”
must be replaced by “obtaining”.
In the Results section –
Under Study selection and data
extraction –
·
In the 1st sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “3 authors”.
Under Identifying research clusters –
In the 1st paragraph –
·
In the 2nd sentence, what
“assumption” is being referred to?
In the 2nd paragraph –
·
In the 5th sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “clusters”.
·
In the 7th sentence, “,” must be
inserted after “with brace treatment” and “respectively” must be replaced by
“each”.
In the 3rd paragraph –
·
In the 2nd sentence, “whereas” must
be replaced by “since”.
·
In the last sentence, “the”
must be inserted before “treatment”.
In the 4th paragraph –
·
In the 2nd sentence, “male” must be
in plural.
·
In the 3rd sentence, “the” must be
inserted before “articles”.
In the Discussion section –
In the 1st paragraph –
·
In the 1st sentence, the term
“spinal progression” must be replaced by “curve progression of spine”.
·
In the 5th sentence, “Wiley,
Thomson” must be replaced by “Wiley et al.”.
In the 2nd paragraph –
·
“The” must be inserted before
“uncertainties”.
In the 4th paragraph –
·
In the last sentence,
“quantity” must be replaced by “number”.
In the 5th paragraph –
·
In the 2nd sentence, “,” must be
inserted after “particular” and “were” before “only” must be replaced by “had”.
In the 6th paragraph –
·
In the 1st sentence, “of” after
“most” must be removed, “the” must be inserted before “brace cluster” and the
words “in which 41.7% of them represented patient compliance of brace treatment
and tightness of brace were the largest concerns that might affect the brace
effectiveness” do not make clear sense.
·
In the 2nd sentence, “system” must
be in plural.
·
In the 3rd sentence, the words
“relieving means of treatment compliance” do not make sense.
Jason Pui-Yin Cheung
Joanne Yip
Kenneth Man-Chee Cheung
Kenny YatHong Kwan
Kit-Lun Yick
Kwan-Yu Chris Lo
Sun-Pui Ng
Sze-Ham Wong
Author Info
Corresponding Author
Joanne Yip
Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HungHom, Hong Kong
Article Info
Article Type
Review of Literature
Publication history
Received: Sat 28, Dec 2019
Accepted: Fri 10, Jan 2020
Published: Thu 30, Jan 2020
Copyright
© 2023 Joanne Yip. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SSG.2020.01.01