Exercise therapy vs Placebo (sham/placebo device): Pain
- Population
- acute non‐specific LBP
- Intervention
- Exercise therapy
- Comparison
- Placebo (sham/placebo device)
- Outcome
- Pain
It is very uncertain whether exercise therapy changes pain compared with sham/placebo treatment (very low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Exercise therapy vs sham/placebo treatment Pain · acute non‐specific LBP It is very uncertain whether exercise therapy changes pain compared with sham/placebo treatment (very low certainty). Exercise therapy for treatment of acute non‐specific low back pain (2023) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 1 study · 299 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exercise therapy for treatment of acute non‐specific low back pain 2023 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | Not extracted | Not assessed |
Related questions
The same intervention and outcome, asked in another population or against another comparator.
- Exercise therapy vs no treatment · acute non‐specific LBP · 1 review
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.