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PainSci summary of Davis 2002?This page is one of thousands in the PainScience.com bibliography. It is not a general article: it is focused on a single scientific paper, and it may provide only just enough context for the summary to make sense. Links to other papers and more general information are provided at the bottom of the page, as often as possible.

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.

These two articles on PainScience.com cite Davis 2002 as a source:

• Healer Syndrome — The problem with health care professionals, especially in alternative medicine, who want to be known as “healers”
• Placebo Power Hype — The placebo effect is fascinating, but its “power” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

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:

• Effectiveness of customised foot orthoses for Achilles tendinopathy: a randomised controlled trial. Munteanu 2015 Br J Sports Med.
• A Bayesian model-averaged meta-analysis of the power pose effect with informed and default priors: the case of felt power. Gronau 2017 Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology.
• The neck and headaches. Bogduk 2014 Neurol Clin.
• Agreement of self-reported items and clinically assessed nerve root involvement (or sciatica) in a primary care setting. Konstantinou 2012 Eur Spine J.
• Effect of NSAIDs on Recovery From Acute Skeletal Muscle Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Morelli 2017 Am J Sports Med.