Question · asked by 1 review
Spinal manipulative therapy plus another intervention vs the intervention alone: Patient‐reported pain intensity or pain relief (VAS, NRS or categorical scale)
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
spinal manipulative therapy plus any intervention vs the intervention alone Pain VAS. Scale from: 0‐100 (worse pain). · patients with chronic LBP Spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low‐back pain (2011) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 3 studies · 228 participants | Low |
spinal manipulative therapy plus any intervention vs the intervention alone Pain VAS. Scale from: 0‐100 (worse pain). · patients with chronic LBP Spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low‐back pain (2011) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 2 studies · 1016 participants | High |
spinal manipulative therapy plus any intervention vs the intervention alone Pain VAS. Scale from: 0‐100 (worse pain). · patients with chronic LBP Spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low‐back pain (2011) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 2 studies · 1000 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low‐back pain 2011 · 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
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