Nuria Ruffini
12 Papers
4 Citations
Nuria Ruffini is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Randomized controlled trial. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
Variations of high frequency parameter of heart rate variability following osteopathic manipulative treatment in healthy subjects compared to control group and sham therapy: randomized controlled trial
Nuria Ruffini,Giandomenico D’Alessandro,Nicolò Mariani,Alberto Pollastrelli,Lucia Cardinali,Francesco Cerritelli +5 more
TL;DR: Findings suggested that OMT can influence ANS activity increasing parasympathetic function and decreasing sympathetic activity, compared to sham therapy and control group.
Osteopathy for primary headache patients: a systematic review.
TL;DR: The results from this systematic review show a preliminary low level of evidence that OMT is effective in the management of headache, but studies with more rigorous designs and methodology are needed to strengthen this evidence.
Osteopathic manipulative treatment in gynecology and obstetrics: A systematic review
Nuria Ruffini,Giandomenico D’Alessandro,Lucia Cardinali,Franco Frondaroli,Francesco Cerritelli +4 more
TL;DR: Overall, OMT can be considered effective on pregnancy related back pain but uncertain in all other gynaecological and obstetrical conditions.
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Blinding and sham control methods in trials of physical, psychological, and self-management interventions for pain (article II): a meta-analysis relating methods to trial results
David Hohenschurz-Schmidt,Jerry Draper-Rodi,Lene Vase,Whitney Scott,Alison H. McGregor,Nadia Soliman,Andrew Macmillan,Axel Olivier,C. A. Cherian,Daniel Corcoran,Hilary Abbey,Sascha Freigang,Jessica Ying Chan,Jules Phalip,Lea Sorensen,M. Delafin,Margarida A.C. Baptista,Naomi R Medforth,Nuria Ruffini,Stephanie Skøtt Andresen,Sylvain Ytier,Dorota Ali,Harriet Hobday,Anak Agung Ngurah Agung Adhiyoga Santosa,Jan Vollert,Andrew S.C. Rice +25 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors proposed a method to solve the problem of unstructured data in the context of data augmentation, which is available in the Textbook version of this paper.
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Blinding and sham control methods in trials of physical, psychological, and self-management interventions for pain (article I): a systematic review and description of methods
David Hohenschurz-Schmidt,Jerry Draper-Rodi,Lene Vase,Whitney Scott,Alison H. McGregor,Nadia Soliman,Andrew Macmillan,Axel Olivier,C. A. Cherian,Daniel Corcoran,Hilary Abbey,Sascha Freigang,Jessica Ying Chan,Jules Phalip,Lea Nørgaard Sørensen,M. Delafin,Margarida A.C. Baptista,Naomi R Medforth,Nuria Ruffini,Stephanie Skøtt Andresen,Sylvain Ytier,Dorota Ali,Harriet Hobday,Anak Agung Ngurah Agung Adhiyoga Santosa,Jan Vollert,Andrew S.C. Rice +25 more
TL;DR: A comprehensive picture of prevalent blinding methods is provided, including a detailed assessment of the resemblance between active and control interventions, which can inform future developments of control interventions in efficacy and mechanistic trials and best-practice recommendations.
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