Browse by Audience
Skip to content
Papers of the Week
Placebo effects in low back pain; a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature.
Authors
Abstract
The current treatments of primary musculoskeletal low back pain (LBP) have a low to moderate efficacy, which might be improved by looking at the contribution of placebo effects. However, the size of true placebo effects in LBP is unknown. Therefore, a systematic review and meta-analysis were executed of randomized controlled trials investigating placebo effects in LBP.