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Treatments examined were acupuncture, education or advice, electrotherapy (including heat and ice electrotherapeutic modalities applied non-invasively), exercise training, manual treatments or manipulation, massage, the McKenzie method, pharmacotherapy, psychological treatments, traction, physical therapy (otherwise not falling into specific treatment combinations), placebo, multidisciplinary pain management, usual care (eg, management by a doctor), and no treatment (true control).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Back pain intensity, leg pain intensity, disability, and mental health outcomes were reported immediately (&lt;1 day), and at short term (\u22651 day and \u22643 months), intermediate term (&gt;3 and &lt;12 months), and long term (\u226512 months) time points. 581 reports of 551 studies (71\u2009126\u2009patients) were included. 510 trials included people with non-specific chronic low back pain and 41 trials included those with radicular chronic low back pain. For back pain (0-100 scale), acupuncture (mean difference \u221220.91, 95% credible interval \u221224.00 to \u221211.95), electrotherapy (\u221218.98, \u221221.84 to\u221210.95), exercise (\u221215.59, \u221217.51 to \u221210.05), manual treatment (\u221219.48, \u221222.17 to \u221211.74), massage (\u221225.61, \u221230.42 to \u221210.91), and multidisciplinary pain management (\u221218.96, \u221222.26 to \u22129.58) exceeded the minimal clinically important difference (set at 0.5 standard deviation) in the short term. For disability (0-100 scale), acupuncture (mean difference \u221210.52, 95% credible intervals \u221211.84 to \u22126.59), massage (\u22129.95, \u221211.45 to \u22125.50), and multidisciplinary pain management (\u221212.56, \u221213.91 to \u22128.55) were clinically effective in the short term. In the immediate and intermediate term only, the McKenzie method and massage, respectively, exceeded the minimal clinically important difference. In the long term, although two of the 14 treatments for back pain and nine of 14 treatments for disability had statistically significant benefits compared with no treatment, the effects were not clinically significant. The certainty of the evidence based on the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation) framework was low (1.4%) to very low (98.6%) across interventions and time points. Findings for massage and the McKenzie method were not stable in the sensitivity analyses. Treatment effects for radicular chronic low back pain did not seem to differ from those for non-specific chronic low back pain.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Some treatments were effective for pain and function in non-specific chronic low back pain, but improvements did not persist long term. Most of the evidence was for non-specific chronic low back pain; the evidence base for radicular chronic low back pain was limited. Although sensitivity analyses did not provide evidence for a different response in radicular chronic low back pain, an evidence gap remains for this subpopulation. 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