Effectiveness of neural mobilization on pain intensity, disability, and physical performance in adults with musculoskeletal pain—A protocol for a systematic review of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials and planned meta-analysis

• Frederico Mesquita Baptista ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frederico Mesquita Baptista, Anabela G. Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: fredericobaptista@ua.pt

  Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1842-6539

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• Eduardo Brazete Cruz ,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Physiotherapy, Escola Superior de Saúde, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal

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• Vera Afreixo ,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation CIDMA–Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications, Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro (UA), Aveiro, Portugal

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• Anabela G. Silva

  Contributed equally to this work with: Frederico Mesquita Baptista, Anabela G. Silva

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS.UA), School of Health Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

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