BACKGROUND Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) is a conservative treatment for lateral epicondylitis (LE), but it is also an alternative intervention between the very different approaches of Chinese and Western medicine. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to systematically review and meta-analyze the therapeutic effects of LLLT on LE. METHODS We searched several electronic databases, includ...

Why do things happen when they happen? Trigger analysis exposes the triggers that prompt subtasks to occur in the right order at the right time, and assess whether tasks are robust to interruptions, delays, and shared responsibility. Trigger analysis starts with task decomposition via any suitable method, proceeding to uncover what trigger prompts each subtask. The obvious answer: “because the ...

Why do things happen when they happen? Trigger analysis exposes the triggers that prompt sub-tasks to occur in the right order at the right time, and assess whether tasks are robust to interruptions, delays and shared responsibility. Trigger analysis starts with task decomposition via any suitable method, proceeding to uncover what trigger prompts each sub-task. The obvious answer: "because the...

Results subsection. I think the wording of the last sentence in the results section, though perhaps technically accurate English wording, could be misleading to the casual reader who might not read the article in depth. I think the authors should either term the correlation of number of muscles with active trigger points to DASH score as a “low-moderate” correlation, or preferably explicitly me...