A really comprehensive and useful repository of risk of bias tools to be used in evidence syntheses.

Nice initiative! latitudes-network.org

Open access. Exercise and Manual Therapy influence on pro-inflammatory cytokines. ChadCookPT Damian Keter PT frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

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Manual therapy versus oral medications for neck pain. Better results with MT for both pain and adverse events. GRADE-Low certainty of evidence for both analyses. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38627846/

Nothing like shop talk with colleagues ChadCookPT Trevor Lentz and Corey Simon for Durham Bulls day game.

Amongst a multitude of grade schoolers we covered weighty MSK topics while enjoying a perfect day for baseball.

New Episode! 'Defining Orthopedic Manual Physical Therapy with Jason Silvernail'

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Congratulations Trevor Lentz recipient of US Association for the Study of Pain Gebhart Award for stakeholder qual study on implementing integrated MSK pain programs 🙌🏻🙌🏻
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Involving patients in their care and shared decision making is all good, but here it is associated with higher opioid use. Need for better education of clinicians is one way of interpreting pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38615802/

Just a reminder about this exciting @ForceNET webinar next week. Neil Theise is a sought after speaker who will challenge your assumptions about discovery.

Physician Empathy and Chronic Pain Outcomes: 'Physician empathy was more strongly associated with favorable outcomes than were nonpharmacological treatments, opioid therapy, and lumbar spine surgery.' jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

The Sp⚽️rts Physio Chris Maher If you have three groups. I love this image that explains the different components of a treatment effect. Perhaps a better interpretation of the JOSPT article is that the contextual + non specific effects are large. Still an important finding

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We've been waiting for this fine work by Giacomo Rossettini in JOSPT pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38602164/ In placebo/sham RCTs, the percentage of effect for disability related to contextual factors

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Reporting interventions in clinical trials is crucial to know what interventions were delivered. We know that this is often done poorly (doi.org/10.1136/bjspor…)

Our study in JOSPT Community looks at why this may be doi.org/10.2519/jospt.…🧵
UNSW Medicine & Health NeuRA (Neuroscience Research Australia) Centre for Pain Impact

For anyone still believing that 'machine learning methods' and 'statistical methods' are well-defined and separable groups of different analytical approaches, feel free to read our paper on this
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NEW PAPER
I was challenged by Chris Morley, PhD to write a 1000-word paper about a tweet. It was fun to do, and hopefully useful to some of you

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Patient Preferences and Their Effects on Rehabilitation Outcomes: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38530232/