Effect of spinal manipulative therapy on mechanical pain sensitivity in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain: a pilot randomized, controlled trial.

What it found

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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.

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

1. Application of variance ratios to assess heterogeneity of spinal manipulative therapy for chronic low back pain: A meta-epidemiological study.PM & R : the journal of injury, function, and rehabilitation · 2026
   Pooled it
2. Manual Therapy Effect in Placebo-Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
   Pooled it
3. Quantitative ultrasound evaluation of the thoracolumbar fascia after manual and acupuncture therapies: an exploratory mechanistic randomized controlled trial with a sequential within-subject phase.European radiology experimental · 2026
   Trial
4. Changes in pain sensitivity and spinal stiffness in relation to responder status following spinal manipulative therapy in chronic low Back pain: a secondary explorative analysis of a randomized trial.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2021
   Trial
5. The effect on clinical outcomes when targeting spinal manipulation at stiffness or pain sensitivity: a randomized trial.Scientific reports · 2020
   Trial
6. Waste not, want not: call to action for spinal manipulative therapy researchers.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2024
   Article
7. An international consensus on gaps in mechanisms of forced-based manipulation research: findings from a nominal group technique.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2024
   Article
8. Toward the Identification of Distinct Phenotypes: Research Protocol for the Low Back Pain Biological, Biomechanical, and Behavioral (LB3P) Cohort Study and the BACPAC Mechanistic Research Center at the University of Pittsburgh.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2023
   Article
9. Current Concept of Quantitative Sensory Testing and Pressure Pain Threshold in Neck/Shoulder and Low Back Pain.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
   Review
10. Time to evolve: the applicability of pain phenotyping in manual therapy.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2022
    Article
11. [Spinal manipulation therapy in low back pain : Why? When? Where? How?]Der Orthopade · 2022
    Review
12. Interventions for the Management of Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: Revision 2021.The Journal of orthopaedic and sports physical therapy · 2021
    Article
13. [Manual medicine, manual treatment : Principles, mode of action, indications and evidence].Der Unfallchirurg · 2021
    Review

Corrections and comments

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Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Funding

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Abstract

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