Table 2 Eligibility criteria for screening and selection

Inclusion Criteria

1. Study must be an intervention or observational study design.

2. Study must be from a peer-reviewed journal.

3. More than 80% of participants in the intervention group must have CP (or the data for the participants with CP can be isolated).

4. Participants must be human.

5. Participants must be children between the age of 0–18 years.

6. Participants must have undergone an intervention including serial casting of the lower limb (ankle, knee or hip).

Exclusion Criteria

1. Studies not reporting pre- and post-casting data for outcome measures.

2. Studies published prior to 1970.

3. Studies not available in a full text version.

4. Studies not published in English or an English full text version was not obtainable.