
tony w
International Orthopaedics
Headache: The Journal of Head and Face Pain
Pain Medicine
Exercise has forever been the go-to torture regimen for people trying to lose weight. It’s typically an acrimonious chore or insufferable extra in an already long day. More and more often, exercise requires a self-demoralizing offensive into a meat market filled with coveted six-packs and lavish hand-wash-only spandex. And in the end, it rarely…
Pain Practice
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
European Journal of Neurology
Journal of Psychiatric Research
Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics
This study used the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) to determine how the quality of methodologies in systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analyses (MAs) impacts the effectiveness of nonpharmacological cancer pain management. The authors searched 11 electronic databases for published and unpublished studies (in English and Korean) on SRs and MAs relating to “cancer” and “pain management” that were released prior to May 7, 2014. The findings from 17 SRs and MAs were scored for quality using AMSTAR and coded by management type and value of effect size.