ArticleBritish journal of sports medicine2018
'Caution, this treatment is a placebo. It might work, but it might not': why emerging mechanistic evidence for placebo effects does not legitimise complementary and alternative medicines in sport.
Article in British journal of sports medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Placebo effects of caffeine on sport performance: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2026Pooled it
- Mesenchymal stem cells injections in traumatology and orthopaedics: common practice or still a promising area with many uncertainties?BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Associations between expected and observed psychological responses to acute resistance exercise in analogue generalized anxiety disorder.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Recovery following a marathon: a comparison of cold water immersion, whole body cryotherapy and a placebo control.European journal of applied physiology · 2018Trial
- "The Dark Side of Musculoskeletal Care": Why Do Ineffective Techniques Seem to Work? A Comprehensive Review of Complementary and Alternative Therapies.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Evidence-Based Recovery in Soccer - Low-Effort Approaches for Practitioners.Journal of human kinetics · 2022Article
- Understanding placebo and nocebo effects in the context of sport: A psychological perspective.European journal of sport science · 2020Review
- Incorporating methods and findings from neuroscience to better understand placebo and nocebo effects in sport.European journal of sport science · 2020Review
- The Utilization of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Saudi Older Adults: A Population-Based Study.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
- "I put it in my head that the supplement would help me": Open-placebo improves exercise performance in female cyclists.PloS one · 2019Article
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