What are the variables associated with Altmetric scores?

Background: Social media has been used to disseminate the contents of scientific articles. To measure the impact of this, a new tool called Altmetric was created. Altmetric aims to quantify the impact of each article through online media.

Do not make clinical decisions based on abstracts of healthcare research: A systematic review.

Objective: To summarize the reporting quality of healthcare abstracts and inconsistencies between abstracts and full texts.

Study Design And Setting: This systematic review included overviews of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and systematic reviews (SRs) that summarized data of healthcare abstracts on reporting of abstracts and consistency of abstracts with the full text. Searches were performed in PubMed, CENTRAL, Cochrane Library and EMBASE databases from 1900 to February 2019.

Photobiomodulation therapy is not better than placebo in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain: a randomised placebo-controlled trial.

Photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) has been used in several musculoskeletal disorders to reduce pain, inflammation, and promoting tissue regeneration. The current evidence about the effects of PBMT on low back pain (LBP) is still conflicting. We aimed to evaluate the effects of PBMT against placebo on pain intensity and disability in patients with chronic nonspecific LBP.

Factors associated with the reporting quality of low back pain systematic review abstracts in physical therapy: a methodological study.

Background: Abstracts of systematic reviews (SR) are frequently used to guide clinical decision-making. However, if the abstract is inadequately reported, key information may be missing and it may not accurately summarize the results of the review.

Objective: We aimed to investigate 1) if abstracts are fully reported; 2) if abstract reporting is associated with review/journal characteristics in physical therapy for low back pain (LBP); and 3) if these abstracts are consistent with the corresponding full texts.

The impact of low back pain systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines measured by the Altmetric score: Cross-Sectional study.

Background: Although Altmetric has been widely used by researchers to monitor the audience of their articles, there are no studies that have analysed factors associated with Altmetric score for systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines.

Objectives: 1) To analyse factors that could be associated with Altmetric scores for low back pain systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines. 2) To describe the characteristics of these articles and their Altmetric scores.

Commentary on: Kinesio taping in treatment of chronic non-specific low back pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Missing (Letter).

Journal impact factor is associated with PRISMA endorsement, but not with the methodological quality of low back pain systematic reviews: a methodological review.

Purpose: To analyze the association of impact factor of the journals publishing low back pain systematic reviews with whether these journals endorsed the PRISMA recommendations and the reviews methodological quality.

Methods: We searched the Physiotherapy Evidence Database on January 2018 for all low back pain systematic reviews, published between 2015 and 2017. Our primary outcomes were PRISMA recommendations endorsement by the journal and 2017 journal impact factor.

Eight in Every 10 Abstracts of Low Back Pain Systematic Reviews Presented Spin and Inconsistencies With the Full Text: An Analysis of 66 Systematic Reviews.

Study Design: Overview study.

Background: Abstracts of systematic reviews have presented 'spin' (i.e.

Abstracts of low back pain trials are poorly reported, contain spin of information and are inconsistent with the full text: An overview study.

Objective: To investigate trials abstracts evaluating treatments for low back pain with regards to completeness of reporting, spin (i.e., interpretation of study results that overemphasizes the beneficial effects of the intervention), and inconsistencies in data with the full text.

Description of low back pain clinical trials in physical therapy: a cross sectional study.

Objective: To describe the main characteristics of low back pain randomized controlled trials on the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, and to rank the journals where these trials were published according to their Impact Factor.

Methods: This is a cross sectional study based on a collection of randomized controlled trials. A random sample of 200 low back pain trials published between 2010 and 2015 were selected from Physiotherapy Evidence Database in February 2016.

Impact of Low Back Pain Clinical Trials Measured by the Altmetric Score: Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: There is interest from authors and publishers in sharing the results of their studies over the Internet in order to increase their readership. In this way, articles tend to be discussed and the impact of these articles tends to be increased. In order to measure this type of impact, a new score (named Altmetric) was created.

Methodologic Quality and Statistical Reporting of Physical Therapy Randomized Controlled Trials Relevant to Musculoskeletal Conditions.

Objectives: To investigate the methodologic quality and statistical reporting of reports of trials indexed on the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) classified in the musculoskeletal subdiscipline, and to analyze the characteristics of the trials that can predict trial report quality.

Design: Cross-sectional study based on a collection of randomized controlled trials. We randomly selected 19% of trials coded as musculoskeletal from PEDro.

Do people with recurrent back pain constrain spinal motion during seated horizontal and downward reaching?

Background: Although the effect of symptomatic back pain on functional movement has been investigated, changes to spinal movement patterns in essentially pain-free people with a history of recurrent back pain are largely unreported. Reaching activities, important for everyday and occupational function, often present problems to such people, but have not been considered in this population. The purpose of this study was to compare the amplitude and timing of spinal and hip motions during two, seated reaching activities in people with and without a history of recurrent low back pain (RLBP).

Coordination of spinal motion in the transverse and frontal planes during walking in people with and without recurrent low back pain.

Study Design: Observational cohort study.

Objective: To investigate spinal coordination during preferred and fast speed walking in pain-free subjects with and without a history of recurrent low back pain (LBP).

Summary Of Background Data: Dynamic motion of the spine during walking is compromised in the presence of back pain (LBP), but its analysis often presents some challenges.

Experimental diabetes modulates collagen remodelling of joints in rats.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to evaluate extracellular matrix components in articular cartilage, ligaments and synovia in an experimental model of diabetes. Young Wistar rats were divided into a streptozotocin-induced (STZ; 35 mg/kg) diabetic group (DG; n=15) and a control group (CG; n=15). Weight, blood glucose and plasma anti-carboxymethyllysine were measured 70 days after STZ infusions.

Physical activity improves strength, balance and endurance in adults aged 40-65 years: a systematic review.

Question: Can physical activity in adults aged 40-65 years enhance strength and balance and prevent falls?

Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials.

Participants: Healthy adults aged 40-65 years.

Intervention: Programs that involved the performance of any physical activity in community settings and workplaces.

A critical review of methods used to determine the smallest worthwhile effect of interventions for low back pain.

Objective: To critically and systematically review methods used to estimate the smallest worthwhile effect of interventions for nonspecific low back pain.

Study Design And Setting: A computerized search was conducted of MEDLINE, CINAHL, LILACS, and EMBASE up to May 2011. Studies were included if they were primary reports intended to measure the smallest worthwhile effect of a health intervention (although they did not need to use this terminology) for nonspecific low back pain.

Discriminative and reliability analyses of ultrasound measurement of abdominal muscles recruitment.

Rehabilitative ultrasound imaging has a great potential to be used as a tool in the assessment of trunk muscle function in patients with low back pain (LBP). However, a further investigation of the discriminative ability of this tool as well as the effect of operators' levels of training on reliability is warranted. Discriminative analysis of ultrasound and electromyography (EMG) measurements of transversus abdominus (TrA), obliquus internus (OI), and obliquus externus (OE) muscles function between people with and without LBP and the effect of operator's training on reliability of TrA muscle function of chronic LBP patients were conducted.