Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29232836›Full record

ReviewBrain sciences2017

Spasticity Management in Disorders of Consciousness.

Géraldine Martens, Steven Laureys, Aurore Thibaut

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In one paragraph

Review in Brain sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Manual Dexterity in Patients with Disorder of Consciousness.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2026
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  7. Neck muscle spasticity in patients with disorder of consciousness: a pilot study.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2024
    Article
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  13. Role of Acupuncture in the Management of Severe Acquired Brain Injuries (sABIs).Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2018
    Review
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

3 authors.

Géraldine MartensComa Science Group, GIGA Research (Interdisciplinary Cluster for Applied Genoproteomics)-GIGA Consciousness & Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liege, 4000 Liege, Belgium. geraldine.martens@ulg.ac.be.ORCID 0000-0001-7038-7165
Steven LaureysComa Science Group, GIGA Research (Interdisciplinary Cluster for Applied Genoproteomics)-GIGA Consciousness & Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liege, 4000 Liege, Belgium. steven.laureys@ulg.ac.be.
Aurore ThibautComa Science Group, GIGA Research (Interdisciplinary Cluster for Applied Genoproteomics)-GIGA Consciousness & Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liege, 4000 Liege, Belgium. athibaut@ulg.ac.be.ORCID 0000-0001-5991-1747

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

brain injurydisorders of consciousnesspainspasticitytreatmentupper motor neuron syndrome

Identifiers

PMID29232836
PMCPMC5742765

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