JMIRxMed JMIRx Med JMIRx Med 2563-6316 JMIR Publications Toronto, Canada v3i4e45060 10.2196/45060 Peer-Review Report Peer-Review Report Peer Review of “Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia Following Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation and Resistance Training Among Individuals With Shoulder Myofascial Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial” Meinert Edward Anonymous Oct-Dec 2022 27 12 2022 3 4 e45060 14 12 2022 14 12 2022 © Anonymous. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://med.jmirx.org), 27.12.2022. 2022

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 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.28.22276990v1 https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/40747 https://med.jmirx.org/2022/4/e45038/ https://med.jmirx.org/2022/4/e40747/ exercise induced hypoalgesia proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation PNF resistance exercise conditioned pain modulation myofascial pain syndrome resistance training hypoalgesia exercise-induced hypoalgesia shoulder myofascial pain myofascial pain pain management chronic pain musculoskeletal pain physical therapy physiotherapy shoulder pain upper back pain exercise pain

This is a peer-review report submitted for the paper “Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia Following Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation and Resistance Training Among Individuals With Shoulder Myofascial Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial”

Round 1 Review General Comments

This paper [1] aims to compare short-term exercise-induced hypoalgesia responses following different types of exercise in pain modulation within patients with myofascial pain. It is generally well written and presents innovative results to clarify the knowledge in the treatment of myofascial pain.

 Specific Comments Major Comments

1. Methods: In the procedures section, please add information about possible blinding of the evaluators (ie, experience of the persons who did the manual assessment of the myofascial pain syndrome, people who performed the exercise programs, etc).

 Minor Comments

2. Discussion: Please try to address the important improvements in the proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation exercise group in relation to personal interaction with the researcher (manual contact, personal adaptation, etc).

None declared.

 Zu ZH An N Wang ZR Exercise-Induced Hypoalgesia Following Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation and Resistance Training Among Individuals With Shoulder Myofascial Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial JMIRx Med 2022 3 4 e40747