Articles: pain-management-methods.
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Support Care Cancer · Dec 2013
Review Meta AnalysisOptimal patient education for cancer pain: a systematic review and theory-based meta-analysis.
Previous systematic reviews have found patient education to be moderately efficacious in decreasing the intensity of cancer pain, but variation in results warrants analysis aimed at identifying which strategies are optimal. ⋯ The current meta-analysis follows a trend in using theory to understand the mechanisms of complex interventions. We suggest that future efforts focus on interventions that target patient self-efficacy. Authors are encouraged to report comprehensive details of interventions and methods to inform synthesis, replication, and refinement.
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Review Meta Analysis
Efficacy of the Pilates method for pain and disability in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain: a systematic review with meta-analysis.
To systematically review the available evidence on the efficacy of the Pilates method in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain. ⋯ Pilates was better than a minimal intervention for reducing pain and disability in patients with chronic low back pain. Pilates was not better than other types of exercise for short-term pain reduction.
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2011: this review is being updated by a new author team who are preparing a new protocol. This update is due to be published in 2011. The replacement protocol was published in September 2011 (Bradshaw DH, Brown CJ, Cepeda MS, Pace NL. ⋯ CD009284). 2015: at July 2015, the PaPaS Review Group withdrew the 2011 protocol (Bradshaw 2011) as there were significant delays in preparing the full review, which did not meet the expectations of Cochrane and PaPaS editorial processes and timelines. For more information, please contact the PaPaS CRG office. The editorial group responsible for this previously published document have withdrawn it from publication.
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A meta-analysis was conducted to examine the effect of mud therapy on pain relief in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). ⋯ Mud therapy is a favourable option for pain relief in patients with knee OA. Additional high-quality randomized controlled trials need to be conducted to explore this issue further and to confirm this conclusion.
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This article reports the development of natural history and active treatment benchmarks for psychological treatments of chronic pain. The benchmarks were derived from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reported in a published meta-analysis. In two preliminary studies we surveyed small samples of active clinicians working in U. ⋯ The average ES across outcome domains for the treatment arms was approximately 0.35. These benchmarks may be used to assess the effectiveness of routine clinical treatments for chronic pain. The application of these data and the limitations of the study are discussed.