Sentence examples for inert interventions from inspiring English sources

Some reviews find that SMT results in equal or better improvements in pain and function when compared with other commonly used interventions for short, intermediate, and long-term follow-up; other reviews find it to be no more effective in reducing pain than either inert interventions, sham manipulation, or other treatments, and conclude that adding SMT to other treatments does improve outcomes.

[28] Our study suggests that openly described inert interventions when delivered with a plausible rationale can produce placebo responses reflecting symptomatic improvements without deception or concealment.

Placebo effect has been defined as "any improvement of symptoms or signs following a physically inert intervention" [ 44].

Therefore, it may be anticipated that open-label placebos, which cause the patient to expect an inert intervention, will not induce the same level of conscious expectations in a patient as a deceptive placebo.

This issue is consistent with pairwise meta-analyses in addition to MTC analyses as it allows for increased power and determines the magnitude of treatment effects compared with inert and less effective interventions.

A placebo is defined as an inert, inactive substance or intervention or device without any function.

For LLLT, PEMF, TENS and US reports were checked to ensure that the placebo/sham intervention was inert in the form of an identical device delivering no output (i.e. a dummy device).

For acupuncture, sham interventions were considered inert if they used non-acupuncture points and superficial needling (≤ 2 mm) or a specifically designed placebo needle.

While a true placebo is biologically inert, n-3 fatty acid intervention studies provide the control groups with metabolically-active compounds in order to maintain visual appearance, namely oils with varying concentrations of fatty acids.

In the absence of an inert and indistinguishable placebo, a wide variety of sham interventions have been used in acupuncture trials.

Nevertheless, given that PCSTs have convincingly distinguished between effective and ineffective surgical interventions [ 26, 36], it seems warranted to assume that they are inert enough to fulfil their epistemic function in PCSTs.