Massage therapy was shown to be effective in reducing pain in patients with hand OA; however, owing to the lower quality (3 on the PEDro scale) of the one study on massage [ 27], it is hard to draw definitive conclusions about massage therapy.
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti's capital city on Tuesday afternoon, but it's no accident that so much of Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone.
That she might attempt a tour on the scale of the one that arrived at the Nassau Coliseum here on Wednesday night would have appeared laughable and worrying.
But critics ask whether it is worth conducting a campaign on the scale of the one used against polio to eliminate a generally harmless virus.
At the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Randy Clerihue, a spokesman, said that a default on a scale of the one that might be looming at United would be unprecedented.
Leaders of human rights organizations have warned that unless the world reacts now, the ethnic killings in Darfur may become a massacre on the scale of the one in 1994 in Rwanda and which the United Nations and the international community failed to stop.
