2026-04-13T13:25:51Zhttps://recercat.cat/oai/requestoai:recercat.cat:20.500.14342/7112025-05-15T19:17:55Zcom_2072_482405com_2072_183628col_2072_482409
RECERCAT
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Urrútia, Gerard
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Burton, A. Kim
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Morral, Antoni
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Bonfill, X. (Xavier)
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Zanoli, Gustavo
2025-05-15T19:17:55Z
2025-05-15T19:17:55Z
2004-04
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/711
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD003009.pub2
Background
Among the wide range oftherapeutic alternatives proposed forthe management of low-back pain (LBP), a less widely used technique from Spain, called neuroreflexotherapy (NRT) has claimed to show very favourable results, mainly in patients with chronic low-back pain.
Objectives
To assess the ePectiveness of NRT for the treatment of non-specific LBP in adult patients, aged 16 to 65 years. A secondary objective was to compare NRT with other conventional interventions.
Search methods
In July 2009, we updated the searches in CENTRAL (Issue 3, 2009), MEDLINE and EMBASE. No new trials were identified.
Selection criteria
Only randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of NRT for the treatment of patients with a clinical diagnosis of non-specific LBP were included.
Data collection and analysis
Two authors independently selected trials and extracted data using pre-designed forms. Because the outcome variables were not assessed in a homogenous way, it was not possible to pool the results to obtain an estimate of global ePect, as initially planned.
Main results
Three RCTs were included, with a total of 125 subjects randomised to the control groups and 148 subjects receiving active NRT.
Neuroreflexotherapy was the same in all three trials, while the control groups received sham-NRT in two trials and standard care in one.
Two trials studied patients with chronic LBP, the third studied patients with a mix of chronic and sub-acute LBP. Clinical outcomes were
measured in the short-term (15 to 60 days) in all three trials; in one trial, resource utilization was measured aSer one year. Individuals who received active NRT showed statistically significantly better outcomes than the control groups for measures of pain, degree of mobility, disability, medication use, consumption of resources and costs. No significant diPerences were observed for quality of life measures. Side ePects were more frequently reported in the control groups during short-term follow-up, with no major side ePects reported by those receiving active NRT.
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Lumbálgia -- Tractament
Reflexoteràpia
Neuroreflexotherapy for non-specific low-back pain (Review)
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