@belavyprof

Professor @hsgesundheit. Expert for muscle, joint & bone health. Editorial board @BMJOpenSEM and @JOSPT.

 Bochum, Germany
Joined August 2018
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Thinking of doing a PhD and wondering what might help you succeed? Supervising PhD students and want the best outcome for them? Thread 👇👇👇👇👇 Summary of work in @PLOSONE doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone… @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #phdchat #phdlife #research
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We analyzed 551 trials and 71,126 patients to compare every major conservative treatment for chronic low back pain — acupuncture, exercise, manual therapy, massage, meds, and more — tracking effects over time. Here's what we found. 🧵
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@BMJMedicineJul 6
How effective are conservative (non-surgical) treatments for chronic non-specific low back pain? @belavyprof and colleagues examine the efficacy of conservative treatments, usual care, and no treatment for chronic radicular and non-specific back pain. bit.ly/4eVftwK

Conservative treatments for chronic non-specific low back pain: time course network meta-analysis

Objective To examine the efficacy of conservative (non-surgical) treatments, usual care, and no treatment for chronic radicular and non-specific back pain.Design Time course network meta-analysis.D...

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How well do treatments for chronic low back pain actually hold up over time? We just published a massive time-course network meta-analysis in @BMJMedicine analyzing 551 trials and 71,126 patients to find out. 🧵👇 🔗 doi.org/10.1136/bmjmed-2025-…
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The takeaway for health policy from our paper in @BMJMedicine : for chronic #backpain we need to pivot our focus toward long-term self-management, and sustainable lifestyle/behavioral modifications. 🔗 doi.org/10.1136/bmjmed-2025-… 👇 90s video summary
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@tobi_saueressig @nitintarika Arun Prasad Balasundaram @XiaolongChen7 @DrAshishDiwan Jon J. Ford @stopsbackpain Andrew J. Hahne Svenja Kaczorowski @_clintmiller @NiamhMundell @HugoPedder Tim Schleimer Scott Tagliaferri Florian Teichert Xiaohui Zhao @PatrickOwenPhD
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Just published in @JOSPT Open Two treatments for chronic neck pain: no clinically important difference between the two. 👇 Thank you @PhysioMeScience for sharing 🙏
Physio Meets Science@PhysioMeScience4 Dec 2025
Just published 🔥open access The TAMERE RCT: Comparative Effectiveness of Topical Manual Pain Therapy Versus Exercise Therapy in Chronic Non-Specific Neck Pain 👇👇👇 jospt.org/doi/10.2519/jospto… great lead by @tobi_saueressig @PhysioMeScience @PatrickOwenPhD @belavyprof
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Chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain affects 1.7 billion people globally and costs hundreds of billions annually. Exercise helps ✅ ⚠️but: evidence base is too imprecise to implement it well What do 🤔 ➡️Editorial in @BMJOpenSEM bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/1… By Nitin Arora 🙏👏
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The Path Forward A 3-step approach for a stronger evidence base: 1️⃣ Integrate reporting frameworks from design to publication 2️⃣ Strengthen systematic review methodology 3️⃣ Enforce reporting compliance across the ecosystem Together, this enables precision exercise prescription
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Final Takeaway Once reporting and review standards improve, we can move beyond “some exercise is better than none” toward tailored, evidence-driven, safe, and clinically meaningful exercise prescriptions for each MSK pain presentation.
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#Psychological treatments to improve sleep in kids with chronic #pain ❓ Systematic #review and #metaanalysis in @JCSMJournal doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.11678 👇#infographic ➡️ Current treatments do not seem sufficient to improve sleep in young patients with #chronic pain
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➡️ Moving forward, if sleep is important for a patient, other treatments need to be considered and evaluated 🚩 🙏 co-authors! - Tanya Thwaite - Emma Craige - @NiamhMundell - @ScottTags - Kate Vincent - Sally Ferguson - Madeline Sprajcer - @PatrickOwenPhD - Grace Vincent
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