"Hands-On" and "Hands-Off" Physiotherapy Treatments in Fibromyalgia Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Background: Physiotherapy plays a key role in managing fibromyalgia, a multifaceted disorder, through a combination of active and passive treatments. The purpose of this review is to compare the efficacy of "hands-off" treatments alone versus the combination of "hands-off" and "hands-on" therapies. Methods: MEDLINE (PubMed), CENTRAL, and Embase were searched. English-language randomized controlled trials involving adults with fibromyalgia were included. The included studies were divided into subgroups to reduce the possible heterogeneity. We calculated the standardized mean difference or mean difference with 95% confidence intervals for the continuous data according to the outcome measures. We used the risk ratio for dichotomous data of the drop-out rate of the studies. Re

SUBMITTER: Buraschi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11506077 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature