Question · asked by 1 review

MET plus any intervention vs the intervention alone: Patient‐reported pain intensity or pain relief (VAS, NRS or categorical scale)

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
MET plus any intervention vs that same intervention alone
Pain A 0 to 100 visual analogue scale, where 0 equals no pain at all and 100 is the worst pain imaginable · patients with non‐specific low‐back pain (LBP)
Muscle energy technique for non‐specific low‐back pain (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted1 study · 40 participantsLow
MET plus any intervention vs that same intervention alone
Pain A 0 to 100 visual analogue scale, where 0 equals no pain at all and 100 is the worst pain imaginable · patients with non‐specific low‐back pain (LBP)
Muscle energy technique for non‐specific low‐back pain (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted1 study · 30 participantsLow

Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Muscle energy technique for non‐specific low‐back pain
2015 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedlist not extracted yetNot 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

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