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Two articles on PainSci cite Davis 2002: (1) Healer Syndrome (2) Placebo Power Hype 

PainSci notes on Davis 2002:

A fascinating letter (plus replies) to the editor of Physical Therapy, regarding the October 2001 issue, which published the “shocking” results of the Philadelphia Panel, showing that “so few of the modalities that we have come to believe in actually show evidence of efficacy in controlled trials.” See “Philadelphia Panel evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on selected rehabilitation interventions: overview and methodology”.

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• “Philadelphia Panel evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on selected rehabilitation interventions: overview and methodology,” {Philadelphia Panel}, Physical Therapy, 2001.
• “Analgesic effects of treatments for non-specific low back pain: a meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomized trials,” L A C Machado, S J Kamper, R D Herbert, C G Maher, and J H McAuley, Rheumatology (Oxford), 2009.
• “Systematic review of manual therapies for nonspecific neck pain,” Karl Vincent, Jean-Yves Maigne, Cyril Fischhoff, Olivier Lanlo, and Simon Dagenais, Joint Bone Spine, 2013.

This page is part of the PainScience BIBLIOGRAPHY, which contains plain language summaries of thousands of scientific papers & others sources. It’s like a highly specialized blog. A few highlights:

• Relationships Between Sleep Quality and Pain-Related Factors for People with Chronic Low Back Pain: Tests of Reciprocal and Time of Day Effects. Gerhart 2017 Ann Behav Med.
• Modulation in the elastic properties of gastrocnemius muscle heads in individuals with plantar fasciitis and its relationship with pain. Zhou 2020 Sci Rep.
• Association Between Plantar Fasciitis and Isolated Gastrocnemius Tightness. Nakale 2018 Foot Ankle Int.
• No Added Benefit of Combining Dry Needling With Guideline-Based Physical Therapy When Managing Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Stieven 2020 J Orthop Sports Phys Ther.
• Effectiveness of customised foot orthoses for Achilles tendinopathy: a randomised controlled trial. Munteanu 2015 Br J Sports Med.