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Spinal manipulative therapy vs inert interventions: Disability (Roland‐Morris Disability Questionnaire) Scale from: 0 to 23; 0 is no disability.

What each review found

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FindingEffectStudiesGRADE certainty
Spinal manipulative therapy vs inert interventions
Functional status at one week Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire. Scale from: 0 (no dysfunction) to 24 (worse function) · Patients with acute low‐back pain
Spinal manipulative therapy for acute low‐back pain (2012) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted2 studies · 205 participantsModerate
Spinal manipulative therapy vs inert interventions
Functional status at one month Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire. Scale from: 0 (no dysfunction) to 24 (worse function) · Patients with acute low‐back pain
Spinal manipulative therapy for acute low‐back pain (2012) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted1 study · 178 participantsLow

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

The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Spinal manipulative therapy for acute low‐back pain
2012 · 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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