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Digital Health Interventions for Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

  • By

  • Xuxin Wang

  • Wen Jing

  • Yunxia Li

  • Hui Li

  • Jing Li

  • Yuanyuan Liu

  • Su’e Yuan

  • October 7, 2026

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    Chronic musculoskeletal pain persists or recurs for more than 3 months and is associated with functional limitations and reduced health-related quality of life.

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    Digital health interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain include app-based programs, telerehabilitation, wearable-supported systems, virtual reality, and multicomponent approaches.

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    Digital interventions can deliver remote self-management, individualized feedback, behavioral support, and ongoing interaction with health care professionals.

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    Digital platforms are delivery formats rather than therapeutic mechanisms, and interventions using the same platform may contain different therapeutic components.

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    Classifying interventions solely by technology may obscure differences in therapeutic content and increase heterogeneity in network comparisons.

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Effects of Digital Health Interventions in Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: Systematic Review and Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

  • by Xuxin Wang, Wen Jing, Yunxia Li, Hui Li, Jing Li, Yuanyuan Liu, Su’e Yuan

  • October 7, 2026

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