Table 1.
Search strategy
| 1 | Randomised controlled trials as |
| 2 | Topic/ |
| 3 | randomised controlled trial.pt |
| 4 | controlled clinical trial.pt |
| 5 | or/1-3 |
| 6 | Exp Pain |
| 7 | Exp Musculoskeletal Disease |
| 8 | Exp Musculoskeletal Pain |
| 9 | Or/5-7 |
| 10 | Rehabilitation |
| 11 | Bone |
| 12 | Joint |
| 13 | Muscle |
| 14 | Exp Exercise therapy |
| 15 | Physiotherapy |
| 16 | Physical therapy |
| 17 | Physical-therapy |
| 18 | Exp Exercise Or/9-17 |
| 19 | (exercise adj7 pain$).af |
| 20 | High load |
| 21 | Loaded$ |
| 22 | Resistance$ |
| 23 | Eccentric$ |
| 24 | Concentric$ |
| 25 | Weight loaded |
| 26 | Weight-loaded |
| 27 | Weight resistance |
| 28 | Weight-resistance |
| 29 | High-load |
| 30 | Heavy load |
| 31 | Heavy-load |
| 32 | Direction$ preference |
| 33 | Directional-preference |
| 34 | Or/19-33 |
| 35 | 4 and 8 and 18 and 34 (limited to English) |