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Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for treatments for chronic conditions and injuries.
Created April 2008
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Prolotherapy injections for chronic low-back pain
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Prolotherapy injections for chronic low-back painChronic low-back pain is a very common problem for which there is currently no universally effective treatment. Patients with chronic low-back pain have many treatment options and it is important for them...
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Jan 2007
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Trypanocidal drugs for chronic asymptomatic Trypanosoma cruzi infection
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite causing Chagas' disease, infects about 18 million people living across Latin America. About 30% of them develop a major heart disease in their 30s or 40s, after decades of silent infection. No treatment is considered useful...
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Oct 2001
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Chinese medicinal herbs for chronic hepatitis B
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Chronic hepatitis B is an infectious disease of the liver caused by hepatitis B virus. Around 350 million people worldwide are chronic infected carriers of the virus. Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs have for long been used for treating chronic liver...
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Jun 2000
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Exercise therapy for treatment of non-specific low back pain
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Exercise therapy appears to be slightly effective at decreasing pain and improving function in adults with chronic low-back pain, particularly in populations visiting a healthcare provider. In adults with subacute low-back pain there is some evidence th...
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Apr 2005
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Non surgical therapy for anal fissure
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Anal fissure is a painful ulcer usually occurring in the posterior midline of the skin just outside the entry to the rectum. Its persistence is due to spasm of the internal sphincter muscle. Relief with healing of chronic fissures until very recently ha...
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Jul 2006
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Behavioural treatment for chronic low-back pain
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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In this systematic review 21 studies were included. The results showed that a combined respondent-cognitive therapy and a progressive relaxation therapy alone are more effective than waiting list control for short-term pain relief. No significant differ...
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Oct 2004
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Interventions for the management of oral submucous fibrosis
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Oral submucous fibrosis is a chronic disease which is commonly found in patients in the Asian subcontinent and the Far East and is characterised by the build up of constricting bands of collagen in the cheeks and adjacent structures of the mouth. The pr...
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Jul 2008
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Intravenous immunoglobulin for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is a long-term illness caused by inflammation of nerves leading to paralysis. It is probably an autoimmune disease. Immunoglobulin, antibodies purified from the blood, are given intravenou...
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Jan 2002
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Electromagnetic therapy for treating pressure ulcers
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Pressure ulcers (also called bed sores, decubitus ulcers or pressure sores) are sores on the skin caused by pressure or rubbing. They usually affect immobile people, on the bony parts of their bodies that stick out, such as hips, heels and elbows, and t...
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Apr 2008
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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for chronic pain
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Despite the widespread use of TENS machines, the analgesic effectiveness of TENS still remains uncertain. This has mainly been due to inadequate methodology and reporting in earlier studies but more recent studies of TENS for chronic pain fail to offer ...
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Apr 2008
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Pharmacotherapy for dysthymia
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Many drug treatments have been proposed for the treatment of dysthymia. There is a need to know whether the different classes of antidepressants have similar efficacy. The tolerability of treatments may be even more important, since dysthymia is a chron...
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Apr 2003
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Follow-up strategies for patients treated for non-metastatic colorectal cancer
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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For patients with colorectal cancer treated with curative intent, intensive follow up is associated with improved all-cause survival. However, from the randomised trials completed and reported to date, it is not clear what constitutes the optimal follow...
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Aug 2006
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Corticosteroids for chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy is an uncommon progressive or relapsing paralysing disease caused by inflammation of the peripheral nerves. It is characterised by slowly evolving weakness and numbness of the limbs. It is though...
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Mar 2008
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Non-invasive physical treatments for chronic/recurrent headache
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Various physical treatments are often used instead of, or in addition to, medications to treat headaches. Evidence from controlled trials suggests that several non-invasive physical treatments may help prevent chronic/recurrent headaches. Spinal manipul...
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May 2004
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Bicyclol for chronic hepatitis B
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Evidence on beneficial or harmful effects of bicyclol for chronic hepatitis C is not found. Bicyclol is a novel synthetic 'anti-hepatitis' drug, used primarily in China for patients with chronic hepatitis B. No well-designed randomised clinical trials wer...
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Aug 2006
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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) for chronic low-back pain
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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A systematic review of randomized-controlled trials (two trials, 175 patients) was conducted to examine the effectiveness of TENS in treating chronic low-back pain. The available evidence supporting the use of TENS as an isolated treatment modality is l...
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May 2005
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Propylthiouracil for alcoholic liver disease
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John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
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Evidence supporting or refuting propylthiouracil for alcoholic liver disease was not found ...
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Aug 2005
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