Appendix B: Reasons for exclusion of full text articles

First Author/Year Reasons for
Exclusion
Contarino (2007) [18] Reported on a subset of participants that were also included in
Kruisdijk (2007) [12]
Wissel (1996) [19] Not a randomized controlled trial
Jabusch (2005) [20] Not a randomized controlled trial
Lungu (2011) [21] Not a randomized controlled trial
Bares (2002) [22] Not a randomized controlled trial
Behari (1998) [23] Case series
Berg (1999) [24] Not a randomized controlled trial
Dashtipour (2015) [25] Systematic review
Grigoriu (2015) [26] Systematic review
Dresel (2014) [27] Did not include botulinum toxin
Ross (1997) [28] Not a randomized controlled trial
Childers (1998) [29] Systematic review
Cohen (1989) [30] Not a randomized controlled trial
Dashtipour (2008) [31] Systematic review
Zeuner (2013) [32] Not a randomized controlled trial
Djebbari (2004) [33] Not a randomized controlled trial
Jankovic (1993) [34] Not a randomized controlled trial
Schuele (2003) [35] Not a randomized controlled trial
Rivest (1991) [36] Not a randomized controlled trial
Yoshimura (1992) [37] Trial included participants who did not have focal hand dystonia
Chen (1999) [38] Participants had concurrent intervention of either
resting or exercising the injected muscles