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Trial reportHealth and quality of life outcomes2013

Effect on health-related quality of life of a multimodal physiotherapy program in patients with chronic musculoskeletal disorders.

Antonio Ignacio Cuesta-Vargas, Manuel González-Sánchez, María Jesús Casuso-Holgado

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Trial report in Health and quality of life outcomes, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  6. Efficacy of aquatic therapy for neck pain: a systematic review.International journal of biometeorology · 2020
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  19. Changes in health-related quality of life (EQ-5D) dimensions associated with community-based musculoskeletal physiotherapy: a multi-centre analysis.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Antonio Ignacio Cuesta-VargasSchool of Clinical Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. acuesta@uma.es
Manuel González-Sánchez
María Jesús Casuso-Holgado

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMusculoskeletal disorders are major causes of morbidity in the world, and these conditions have a strong negative influence in terms of health-related quality of life. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of an 8-week multimodal physical therapy program on general health state and health-related quality of life in patients with chronic musculoskeletal disorders.

methodsThere were 244 participants in this prospective cohort analysis with 8-week follow-up. The primary outcome was general health state (physical and mental components), determined with the Short Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12). The secondary outcome was health related quality of life, determined with the EuroQoL-5D and VAS. The intervention was evaluated by comparing pre- and post-outcome measurements. T-tests were performed for paired data.

resultsDifferences were statistically significant for physical health state: +1.68 (p < 0.05) (baseline: 42.38); mental health state: +3.15 (p < 0.001) (baseline: 46.57); and health related quality of life: +0.18 (EuroQoL 5D) (baseline: 46.57) and +7.22 (EuroQoL_VAS) (p < 0.001) (baseline: 60.81). Intervention resulted in clinically relevant changes in terms of percentage improvement from baseline scores.

conclusionsEight weeks of a Multimodal Physical Therapy Program seemed to moderately enhance the general health state and HRQoL of patients with chronic musculoskeletal diseases. This kind of therapeutic exercise can be recommended to patients with chronic low back pain, chronic neck pain and osteoarthritis, at least in the short term.

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Chronic DiseaseHumansMaleMiddle AgedMusculoskeletal DiseasesPhysical Therapy ModalitiesProspective StudiesQuality of LifeSurveys and QuestionnairesTreatment Outcome

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PMCPMC3577634

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