Manual Therapy Effect in Placebo-Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Miguel Molina-AlvarezAlberto Arribas-RomanoCarmen Rodríguez-Rivera Miguel Ángel Martínez-García Josue Fernández-CarneroSusan Armijo-OlivoCarlos Goicoechea García

Published in: International journal of environmental research and public health (2022)

The literature presents a lack of a unified placebo control group design for each technique and an absence of assessment of expectations. These two issues might account for the unclear results obtained in the analysis.

Keyphrases

placebo controlled
double blind
systematic review
phase iii
clinical trial
study protocol
squamous cell carcinoma
randomized controlled trial
mesenchymal stem cells
radiation therapy
open label