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Trial reportMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2026

Short-Term Effects of Manual Therapy Combined with Functional Magnetic Stimulation in Individuals with Lumbar Disk Herniation with Radiculopathy: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Dimitrios Lytras, Paris Iakovidis, Konstantinos Kasimis, Vasileios Georgoulas, Ioannis Algiounidis, Georgia Maria Kamparoudi, Georgios Tsigaras, Georgia Tarfali, Georgia Vergidou, Nikolaos Sidiropoulos and 2 more

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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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

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

12 authors.

Dimitrios LytrasLaboratory of Biomechanics & Ergonomics, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-6562-2036
Paris IakovidisLaboratory of Biomechanics & Ergonomics, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-0451-9577
Konstantinos KasimisLaboratory of Biomechanics & Ergonomics, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7888-4956
Vasileios GeorgoulasLaboratory of Biomechanics & Ergonomics, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0009-0000-2065-1116
Ioannis AlgiounidisG. Papanikolaou Hospital, 57010 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0009-0007-7060-5581
Georgia Maria KamparoudiDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0009-0007-4311-359X
Georgios TsigarasLaboratory of Basic and Applied Research in Physiotherapeutic Rehabilitation, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Georgia TarfaliSchool of Health Sciences, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh EH21 6UU, UK.
Georgia VergidouDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Nikolaos SidiropoulosDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Eleftheria ZervaDepartment of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ilias KallistratosLaboratory of Basic and Applied Research in Physiotherapeutic Rehabilitation, Department of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, International Hellenic University, Sindos, 57400 Thessaloniki, Greece.ORCID 0009-0003-9674-7394

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Intervertebral Disc DisplacementMagnetic Field TherapyMusculoskeletal ManipulationsRadiculopathyAdultFemaleHumansLumbar VertebraeMaleMiddle AgedPain MeasurementTreatment Outcomefunctional magnetic stimulationlumbar disk herniationmanual therapyneuropathic painphysiotherapyradiculopathyspinal mobilization

Identifiers

PMID41752649
PMCPMC12942207

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Registered trials

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