Journal of rehabilitation medicine : official journal of the UEMS European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
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Review Meta Analysis
Effiectiveness and safety of transcranial direct current stimulation in fibromyalgia: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of transcranial direct current stimulation for fibro-myalgia. ⋯ Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the primary motor cortex is more likely than sham transcranial direct current stimulation to relieve pain and improve general fibromyalgia-related function.
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Review Meta Analysis
Effectiveness of exercise on work disability in patients with non-acute non-specific low back pain: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.
To determine whether exercise is more effective than usual care to reduce work disability in patients with non-acute non-specific low back pain, and if so, to explore which type of exercise is most effective. ⋯ Exercise interventions have a significant effect on work disability in patients with non-acute non-specific low back pain in the long term. No conclusions can be made regarding exercise types.
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Review Meta Analysis
Does repetitive task training improve functional activity after stroke? A Cochrane systematic review and meta-analysis.
To determine if repetitive task training after stroke improves functional activity. ⋯ Repetitive task training resulted in modest improvement across a range of lower limb outcome measures, but not upper limb outcome measures. Training may be sufficient to have a small impact on activities of daily living. Interventions involving elements of repetition and task training are diverse and difficult to classify: the results presented are specific to trials where both elements are clearly present in the intervention, without major confounding by other potential mechanisms of action.