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Summary of findings: Injection therapies vs placebo or no injection control: Pain (VAS; score 0 to 100; 0 = no pain)

It is very uncertain whether summary of findings: Injection therapies changes pain (VAS; score 0 to 100; 0 = no pain) compared with placebo or no injection control (very low certainty).

What each review found

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Summary of findings: Injection therapies vs placebo or no injection control
Pain (VAS; score 0 to 100; 0 = no pain) · individuals with an investigator‐reported diagnosis of Achilles tendinopathy (or related terminology, e.g.…
It is very uncertain whether summary of findings: Injection therapies changes pain (VAS; score 0 to 100; 0 = no pain) compared with placebo or no injection control (very low certainty).
Injection therapies for Achilles tendinopathy (2015) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
no estimate extracted7 studies · 219 participantsVery low

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The reviews

ReviewSearched up toIncluded studiesAMSTAR 2
Injection therapies for Achilles tendinopathy
2015 · 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

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.