Is manipulative therapy more effective than sham manipulation in adults?: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Chiropractic and Manual Therapies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Scholten Peeters, Gwendolijne G M ^a,b   Thoomes, Erik ^a,b   Konings, Sophie ^c   Beijer, Michelle ^c   Verkerk, Karin ^b,c   Koes, Bart W ^b   Verhagen, Arianne P ^a,b  

^a AVANS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ROTTERDAM UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Efficacy; Manipulative therapy; Musculoskeletal manipulation; Sham; Spinal manipulation; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANALGESIA; ASTHMA; CHIROPRACTIC; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DISABILITY; DYSMENORRHEA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG FUNCTION; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NECK PAIN; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANGE OF MOTION; RETURN TO WORK; REVIEW; SCIATICA; SECONDARY HEADACHE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPINAL PAIN; SPINE DISEASE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TENSION HEADACHE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 84884790444     PISSN: 2045709X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2045-709X-21-34     Document Type: Review

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