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Does a tear of the #meniscus in the knee really need #surgery❓ (Answer = not necessarily, patients can recover without having surgery) 🔎 #SystematicReview with #MetaAnalysis by Abram and colleagues, published in @bjsm_bmj ➡️ bit.ly/meniscus_surge… 👇 #infographic

(When) do tears of the #rotatorcuff #shoulder muscles need #surgery❓ (Answer = Not for everyone, and its effects may be the same as #physiotherapy, #medication, #injections) 🔎 #SystematicReview with #MetaAnalysis by Brindisino et al ➡️ bit.ly/Shoulder_surge… 👇 #infographic

Congratulations Tobias Saueressig on this publication from your #PhD ! 🎉🥳

Exercise or advice (± injections) for #shoulderpain❓ (#rotatorcuff) 🔎 #RCT in The Lancet doi.org/10.1016/S0140-… 👇 #infographic ➡️ Both exercise and advice gave similar improvements in patients’ symptoms ➡️ Corticosteroid injection helped short-term only

🧵 Thrilled to share our new paper with Adriani Nikolakopoulou, Svenja Ka, Daniel Belavy, and A/Prof Patrick J Owen in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, where we provide practical guidance on improving Network Meta-Analysis (NMA) in Sport & Exercise Medicine (SEM). A quick breakdown: bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/4/e…

🙏 BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine for promoting our paper for researchers interested in network #metaanalysis (NMA): a guide, worked examples and statistical code osf.io/k9jfa/?view_on… … on how to do+write the key assumption checks (which are typically done poorly ) Physio Meets Science JOSPT Community

It was great to chat with Physiotutors in the #podcast Where we talk about #backpain and across a lot of topics like #placebo, "what treatments work“, "classification of back pain“ and astronauts 🔗👉 physiotutors.com/podcasts/low-b… 🙏

Rehabilitation or surgery for lumbar #radiculopathy ? #SystematicReview with #Metaanalysis by Rachel Clark et al in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine doi.org/10.1007/s11606… 👇 #infographic ➡️ Pain improves over time regardless ➡️ Weigh the small, temporary, benefit of surgery vs. risks

Review: A meta-analysis conducted by Tobias Saueressig, Dr. Daniel Belavy et al. found little evidence of distinct placebo responders in musculoskeletal pain, though individual responses vary. Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-…