Therapeutic ultrasound vs placebo: Short‐term overall improvement (three months or less)
Therapeutic ultrasound may leads to higher short‐term overall improvement (three months or less) compared with placebo (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Therapeutic ultrasound vs placebo Short‐term overall improvement (three months or less) · patients with carpal tunnel syndrome Therapeutic ultrasound may leads to higher short‐term overall improvement (three months or less) compared with placebo (low certainty). Therapeutic ultrasound for carpal tunnel syndrome (2012) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD009601, superseded | RR 2.36 [1.4, 3.98] | 1 study · 68 participants | Low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Therapeutic ultrasound for carpal tunnel syndrome 2013 · 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.