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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Transfer of Energy Capacitive and Resistive Therapy Versus Dry Needling for Active Upper Trapezius Myofascial Trigger Points: Effects on Pain and Cervical Range of Motion a Randomized Controlled Trial.

Tomasz Piętka, Katarzyna Knapik, Grzegorz Onik, Karolina Sieroń

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited 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

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

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.

Tomasz PiętkaDepartment of Physical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-055 Katowice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5180-7101
Katarzyna KnapikDepartment of Physical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-055 Katowice, Poland.
Grzegorz OnikDepartment of Physical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-055 Katowice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-8875-2992
Karolina SierońInstitute of Medical Sciences, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, WSB University, 41-300 Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland.

Funding

Medical University of Silesia PCN-2-055/N/1/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

dry needlingmuscle strengthmyofascial pain syndromemyofascial trigger pointpainrange of motionTECAR therapyupper trapezius

Identifiers

PMID41975862
PMCPMC13073083

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