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Trial reportInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Effects of 1 MHz Therapeutic Ultrasound on Limb Blood Flow and Microvascular Reactivity: A Randomized Pilot Trial.

Megan Waters, Branko Miljkovic, Jozelyn Rascon, Manuel Gomez, Alvaro N Gurovich

Open access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. Advances in Ultrasonic Rehabilitation.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
    Article
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Megan WatersDoctor of Physical Therapy Program, College of Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.
Branko MiljkovicDoctor of Physical Therapy Program, College of Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.
Jozelyn RasconDoctor of Physical Therapy Program, College of Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.
Manuel GomezClinical Applied Physiology Laboratory, College of Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79902, USA.
Alvaro N GurovichDoctor of Physical Therapy Program, College of Health Sciences, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8823-3391
The University of Texas at El Paso · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over study where continuous therapeutic ultrasound (CUS; at 0.4 W/cm

Indexed as

ForearmHemodynamicsCross-Over StudiesHumansPilot ProjectsRegional Blood Flowblood flowmicrovascular functiontherapeutic ultrasound

Identifiers

PMID34769960
PMCPMC8583538
OpenAlexW3209183123

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Registered trials

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