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Three articles on PainSci cite Davis 2002: 1. Your Back Is Not Out of Alignment 2. Healer Syndrome 3. 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:

• Photobiomodulation therapy is not better than placebo in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain: a randomised placebo-controlled trial. Guimarães 2021 Pain.
• No effect of creatine monohydrate supplementation on inflammatory and cartilage degradation biomarkers in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. Cornish 2018 Nutr Res.
• The CANBACK trial: a randomised, controlled clinical trial of oral cannabidiol for people presenting to the emergency department with acute low back pain. Bebee 2021 Med J Aust.
• 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.