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Antti Malmivaara is affiliated with the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare in Finland. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with significant contributions in subfields such as surgery, economics and econometrics, psychiatry and mental health, statistics, probability and uncertainty, and neurology.

Their work encompasses a range of topics, including:

  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Long-Term Effects of COVID-19
  • Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
  • Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
  • Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques

Malmivaara has published extensively, with notable recent papers including:

  • Arthroscopic partial meniscectomy for a degenerative meniscus tear: a 5 year follow-up of the placebo-surgery controlled FIDELITY (Finnish Degenerative Meniscus Lesion Study) trial, 2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Subacromial decompression versus diagnostic arthroscopy for shoulder impingement: a 5-year follow-up of a randomised, placebo surgery controlled clinical trial, 2020, British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Outcomes With Surgery vs Functional Bracing for Patients With Closed, Displaced Humeral Shaft Fractures and the Need for Secondary Surgery, 2021, JAMA Surgery
  • Blinded or Nonblinded Randomized Controlled Trials in Rehabilitation Research, 2020, American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
  • Smoking cessation intervention prior to orthopedic surgery: A study protocol to determine patient outcomes and feasibility, 2022, Tobacco Prevention & Cessation

Their publications appear frequently in journals such as:

  • Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • British Journal of Sports Medicine
  • Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Brain and Spine

Antti Malmivaara has collaborated regularly with a group of co-authors who include:

  • Jari Arokoski
  • Mikko Varonen
  • Helena Liira
  • Mari Kanerva
  • Markku Sainio

Best Publications

  • Chapter 3. European guidelines for the management of acute nonspecific low back pain in primary care.

    Maurits van Tulder;Annette Becker;Trudy Bekkering;Alan Breen

  • Exercise therapy for treatment of non-specific low back pain.

    J A Hayden;M W Van Tulder;A Malmivaara;B W Koes

  • Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for chronic low back pain: systematic review.

    Jaime Guzmán;Rosmin Esmail;Kaija Karjalainen;Antti Malmivaara

  • Exercise therapy for low‐back pain

    Maurits W. van Tulder;Antti Malmivaara;Rosmin Esmail;Bart W Koes

  • Meta-Analysis: Exercise Therapy for Nonspecific Low Back Pain

    Jill A. Hayden;Maurits W. van Tulder;Antti V. Malmivaara;Bart W. Koes

  • Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy versus Sham Surgery for a Degenerative Meniscal Tear

    Raine Sihvonen;Mika Paavola;Antti Malmivaara;Ari Itälä

  • Exercise therapy for low back pain: A systematic review within the framework of the cochrane collaboration back review group

    Maurits van Tulder;Antti Malmivaara;Rosmin Esmail;Bart Koes

  • Surgical or nonoperative treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis? A randomized controlled trial.

    Antti Malmivaara;Pär Slätis;Markku Heliövaara;Päivi Sainio

  • 2015 updated method guideline for systematic reviews in the Cochrane Back and Neck Group

    A. D. Furlan;A. Malmivaara;R. Chou;C. G. Maher

  • Periradicular infiltration for sciatica: a randomized controlled trial.

    Jaro Karppinen;Antti Malmivaara;Mauno Kurunlahti;Eero Kyllönen

  • Multidisciplinary bio-psycho-social rehabilitation for chronic low-back pain

    Jaime Guzman;Rosmin Esmail;Kaija A Karjalainen;Antti Malmivaara

  • Outcome of non-invasive treatment modalities on back pain: an evidence-based review.

    Maurits W. van Tulder;Maurits W. van Tulder;Bart Koes;Antti Malmivaara

  • Effectiveness of physical therapy interventions for children with cerebral palsy: A systematic review

    Heidi Anttila;Ilona Autti-Rämö;Ilona Autti-Rämö;Jutta Suoranta;Marjukka Mäkelä

  • Preoperative predictors for postoperative clinical outcome in lumbar spinal stenosis: systematic review.

    TJ Aalto;Antti Malmivaara;F Kovacs;A Herno

  • Repetitive strain injury

    Maurits van Tulder;Antti Malmivaara;Bart Koes

  • Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Efficacy and Safety of Existing TNF Blocking Agents in Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis

    Kalle J. Aaltonen;Liisa M. Virkki;Antti Malmivaara;Yrjö T. Konttinen

  • Multidisciplinary biopsychosocial rehabilitation for subacute low back pain among working age adults.

    Kaija A Karjalainen;Antti Malmivaara;Maurits W van Tulder;Risto Roine

  • WITHDRAWN: Multidisciplinary bio-psycho-social rehabilitation for chronic low-back pain.

    J Guzmán;R Esmail;K Karjalainen;A Malmivaara

  • Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy versus Sham Surgery for a Degenerative Meniscal Tear

    Raine Sihvonen;Mika Paavola;Antti Malmivaara;Ari Itala

  • Systematic Reviews in Health Care: Meta-analysis in Context

    Antti Malmivaara

Frequent Co-Authors

Jaro Karppinen
Jaro Karppinen University of Oulu
Maurits W. van Tulder
Maurits W. van Tulder Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Simo Taimela
Simo Taimela University of Helsinki
Bart W. Koes
Bart W. Koes Erasmus University Rotterdam
Samuli I. Saarni
Samuli I. Saarni Tampere University
Jean Ferrières
Jean Ferrières Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Eira Viikari-Juntura
Eira Viikari-Juntura Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Aki Vehtari
Aki Vehtari Aalto University
Heikki Kröger
Heikki Kröger University of Eastern Finland
Atte Meretoja
Atte Meretoja Helsinki University Hospital

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