Question · asked by 1 review

Exercise vs Placebo, no intervention or usual care (with or without placebo): Pain intensity VAS (0 to 100; 0 = no pain, 100 = worst pain)

Population
Not specified
Intervention
Exercise
Comparison
Placebo, no intervention or usual care (with or without placebo)
Outcome
Pain intensity VAS (0 to 100; 0 = no pain, 100 = worst pain)

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Summary of findings: Exercise treatment vs no treatment, usual care or placebo
Pain intensity (0‐100; 0 = no pain): Earliest
Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain (2021) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted2746 participantsModerate

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

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Exercise therapy for chronic low back pain
2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
Not reportedNot extractedNot assessed
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.