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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Comparative Effectiveness of Combination Versus Single-Modality Physiotherapy for Rotator Cuff-Related Shoulder Pain: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis.

Chien-Sheng Lo, Kuan-Chung Chen, Jui-Chi Shih, Bill Cheng, Wei-Cheng Chao

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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2citing papers in PubMed, 2 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Conservative treatments for non-surgically managed osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures: a network meta-analysis of long-term pain and quality of life.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2026
    Pooled it
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

5 authors.

Chien-Sheng LoDepartment of Orthopedics, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung City 402, Taiwan.
Kuan-Chung ChenDepartment of Orthopedics, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung City 402, Taiwan.
Jui-Chi ShihSchool of Allied Health, Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, QLD 4014, Australia.
Bill ChengGraduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City 402, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-0692-4349
Wei-Cheng ChaoDoctoral Program in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, College of Medicine, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City 402, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0001-7971-7626

Funding

National Chung Hsing University no grant numberNational Institute of Health Taiwan no grant number
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

combination therapyfunctional improvementpain reductionphysiotherapyRCRSProtator cuff-related shoulder pain

Identifiers

PMID40649139
PMCPMC12250685

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