Manual therapy, prescribed exercises or both vs no intervention or minimal intervention: Global assessment of treatment success
Manual therapy, prescribed exercises or both showed no clear difference in participant‐reported treatment success compared with minimal or no intervention (low certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Manual therapy, prescribed exercises or both vs minimal or no intervention Participant‐reported treatment success · lateral elbow pain Manual therapy, prescribed exercises or both showed no clear difference in participant‐reported treatment success compared with minimal or no intervention (low certainty). Manual therapy and exercise for lateral elbow pain (2024) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.36 [0.96, 1.93] | 6 studies · 770 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 lateral elbow pain 2024 · 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.