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ArticlePain medicine (Malden, Mass.)2016

Massage Therapy for Pain-Call to Action.

Chester Buckenmaier, Jerrilyn Cambron, Ruth Werner, Pamela Buckenmaier, Christopher Deery, Jan Schwartz, Pete Whitridge

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Article in Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Massage for Pain: An Evidence Map.Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.) · 2019
    Pooled it
  2. Trial
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. A Time for Massage.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2016
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Chester Buckenmaier*Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management, Rockville, Maryland.
Jerrilyn CambronMassage Therapy Foundation, Evanston, Illinois.
Ruth WernerMassage Therapy Foundation, Evanston, Illinois.
Pamela BuckenmaierRN Therapeutic Massage, LLC, Annapolis, Maryland.
Christopher DeeryAmerican Massage Therapy Association, Evanston, Illinois.
Jan SchwartzEducation and Training Solutions, LLC, Tucson, Arizona.
Pete WhitridgeAlliance for Massage Therapy Education, Pierce, Florida, USA.
Massage Therapy Foundation · USArizona Department of Education · USUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID27158115
PMCPMC4925169
OpenAlexW2347031598

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.