Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40427804›Full record

ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2025

Where Muscle Matters: How Regional Differences, Pain, and Gender Define Gamer Health.

Joanne DiFrancisco-Donoghue, Min-Kyung Jung, Matteo J Balentine, Hallie Zwibel

Abstract read
PubMed Full text at PMC Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
–field-weighted citation impact
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, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
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

4 authors.

Joanne DiFrancisco-DonoghueDepartment of Osteopathic Medicine, NYIT Center for Esports Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0848-3022
Min-Kyung JungDepartment of Research, College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA.
Matteo J BalentineDepartment of Economics, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA.
Hallie ZwibelDepartment of Family Medicine, NYIT Center for Esports Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine, New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 11568, USA.

Funding

GE Precision Healthcare LLC N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Competitive gaming presents unique musculoskeletal challenges due to prolonged sitting and repetitive hand and arm movements. This study explores gender-specific regional lean body mass (LBM) differences and their associations with musculoskeletal discomfort in competitive gamers. Sixty participants (30 gamers and 30 matched controls; 15 males and 15 females in each group) underwent DXA scans to assess total and regional LBM, handgrip strength tests, and self-reported musculoskeletal pain surveys. Controls were matched for age and BMI and reported comparable academic and screen time but were not engaged in competitive gaming. Male gamers exhibited significantly reduced forearm (

Indexed as

Body CompositionMuscle, SkeletalMusculoskeletal PainVideo GamesAbsorptiometry, PhotonAdolescentAdultFemaleHand StrengthHumansMaleSex FactorsYoung Adultdual-energy X-ray absorptiometryergonomicsesportslean body massmusculoskeletal painrepetitive strain injurysex characteristicsvideo games

Identifiers

PMID40427804
PMCPMC12111110

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.