|
Quality assessment
|
No. of patients
|
Treatment effect (95% CI)
|
Quality of the evidence
|
|---|
|
No. of studies
|
Design
|
Limitations
|
Inconsistency
|
Indirectness
|
Imprecision
|
Other considerations
|
OMT
|
Untreated
|
|---|
|
Pain (measured with: Pain VAS from 0 to 100 [worse pain]; Better indicated by lower values)
|
|
2
|
randomised trials
|
no serious limitations
|
no serious inconsistency
|
no serious indirectness
|
serious1
|
none
|
60
|
59
|
MD 41.85 lower (49.43 to 34.27 lower)
| ⊕ ⊕ ⊕Ο MODERATE |
|
Functional status (measured with: Oswestry Pain Questionnaire; Better indicated by lower values)
|
|
2
|
randomised trials
|
no serious limitations
|
no serious inconsistency
|
no serious indirectness
|
serious1
|
none
|
60
|
59
|
SMD 1.78 lower (2.21 to 1.35 lower)
| ⊕ ⊕ ⊕Ο MODERATE |
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1Sample size < 400.
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Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, MD Mean difference, OMT Osteopathic manipulative treatment, SMD Standard mean difference, VAS Visual analogue scale.
