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01.01.2013 | Reply to Letter-to-the-Editor
Reply to Letter-to-the-Editor: Efficacy and Degree of Bias in Knee Injury Prevention Studies: A Systematic Review of RCTs
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Vance W. Berger, PhD
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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research®
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Ausgabe 1/2013
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I thank Grimm et al. for their considered response [
6] to my letter [
3] regarding their recent article in CORR
® [
5], although I fear that I may not have adequately articulated my concerns (or we are just using different terminology). Clearly the trial by Brushoj et al. [
4] was not masked; there is no way it could be masked, since, for example, nobody would confuse a squat with a curl. The participants knew which set of exercises they were doing; ergo they were not masked. Now if they did not know which set of exercises comprised the active treatment, then we may have had de facto masking, which is still a good thing; but it is not true masking, and the two should not be confused. …