Combination of manual therapy, exercise, electrotherapy and oral NSAID vs oral NSAID: Global assessment of treatment success
Combination of manual therapy, exercise, electrotherapy and oral NSAID may leads to higher global assessment of treatment success "Disappearance of shoulder… compared with oral NSAID (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Combination of manual therapy, exercise, electrotherapy and oral NSAID vs oral NSAID Global assessment of treatment success "Disappearance of shoulder complaints or some pain/limitation which does not interfere with everyday life" · patients with adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) Combination of manual therapy, exercise, electrotherapy and oral NSAID may leads to higher global assessment of treatment success "Disappearance of shoulder… compared with oral NSAID (low certainty). Manual therapy and exercise for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) (2014) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.45 | 1 study · 109 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual therapy and exercise for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) 2014 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
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.