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ArticlePain1998

Towards a mechanism-based classification of pain?

Clifford J Woolf, Gary J Bennett, Michael Doherty, Ronald Dubner, Bruce Kidd, Martin Koltzenburg, Richard Lipton, John D Loeser, Richard Payne, Eric Torebjork

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Article in Pain, 1998. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

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

  1. Pooled it
  2. Psychometric properties of chronic low back pain diagnostic classification systems: a systematic review.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021
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  4. Expectations affect pain sensitivity changes during massage.The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy · 2023
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  6. Pharmacological management of chronic low back pain in older patients: a randomized controlled trial of the effect of pregabalin and opioid administration.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2015
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  7. Comparison of LEP and QST and their contribution to standard sensory diagnostic assessment of spinal lesions: a pilot study.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2011
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  8. Outcomes differ between subgroups of patients with low back and leg pain following neural manual therapy: a prospective cohort study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2011
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  9. Pregabalin, celecoxib, and their combination for treatment of chronic low-back pain.Journal of orthopaedics and traumatology : official journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology · 2009
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  15. Microbiome: A Key Regulator of Body-Brain Interactions.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  20. Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Chronic Pain.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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63 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Clifford J Woolf
Gary J Bennett
Michael Doherty
Ronald Dubner
Bruce Kidd
Martin Koltzenburg
Richard Lipton
John D Loeser
Richard Payne
Eric Torebjork

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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