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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2026

Effects of Spinal Manipulation and Dry Needling on Headache and Migraine: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.

Rubén Maroto-García, Samuel Sánchez-Fernández, Germán Monclús-Díez, Sandra Sánchez-Jorge, Mónica López-Redondo, Marcin Kołacz, Dariusz Kosson, Juan Antonio Valera-Calero

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing 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

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

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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

8 authors.

Rubén Maroto-GarcíaDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Nursery, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0009-0006-3842-752X
Samuel Sánchez-FernándezDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Nursery, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Germán Monclús-DíezDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Nursery, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0009-0002-8074-0545
Sandra Sánchez-JorgeFaculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28223 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6509-3322
Mónica López-RedondoFaculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 28223 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-1956-1903
Marcin Kołacz1st Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-005 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-7126-5714
Dariusz KossonDivision of Teaching, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Warsaw, 02-005 Warsaw, Poland.
Juan Antonio Valera-CaleroDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Nursery, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3379-8392

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

cervicogenic headachedry needlingmigrainephysiotherapyspinal manipulationtension-type headache

Identifiers

PMID41827504
PMCPMC12985622

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