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| Title |
Dosing study of massage for chronic neck pain: protocol for the dose response evaluation and analysis of massage [DREAM] trial
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, September 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-12-158 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Karen J Sherman, Andrea J Cook, Janet R Kahn, Rene J Hawkes, Robert D Wellman, Daniel C Cherkin |
| Abstract |
Despite the growing popularity of massage, its effectiveness for treating neck pain remains unclear, largely because of the poor quality of research. A major deficiency of previous studies has been their use of low "doses" of massage that massage therapists consider inadequate. Unfortunately, the number of minutes per massage session, sessions per week, or weeks of treatment necessary for massage to have beneficial or optimal effects are not known. This study is designed to address these gaps in our knowledge by determining, for persons with chronic neck pain: 1) the optimal combination of number of treatments per week and length of individual treatment session, and 2) the optimal number of weeks of treatment. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 3 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 67% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 105 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 103 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 13% |
| Researcher | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 7 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 16% |
| Unknown | 34 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 25 | 24% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 17 | 16% |
| Sports and Recreations | 4 | 4% |
| Psychology | 4 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 10 | 10% |
| Unknown | 42 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 17 November 2016.
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#12,667,580
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Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#1,342
of 3,618 outputs
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#87,959
of 170,567 outputs
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#51
of 77 outputs
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