RETRACTED ARTICLE: Multimodal exercises integrated with cognitive-behavioural therapy improve disability of patients with failed back surgery syndrome: a randomized controlled trial with one-year follow-up

Abstract

We, the Editor and Publisher of the journal Disability and Rehabilitation, have retracted the following article:

Marco Monticone, Emilia Ambrosini, Barbara Rocca, Daniele Cazzaniga, Valentina Liquori, Alessio Lovi & Marco Brayda-Bruno (2022) Multimodal exercises integrated with cognitive-behavioural therapy improve disability of patients with failed back surgery syndrome: a randomized controlled trial with one-year follow-up. Disability and Rehabilitation, 44:14, 3422–3429, DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2020.1863480

Since publication, concerns have been raised regarding the integrity of the data in the article. When approached for an explanation, the authors provided detailed responses, but were unable to provide an explanation that satisfactorily addressed our concerns, which includes the veracity of the data presented in the article. The authors have been informed of the decision to retract.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as ‘Retracted’.

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Statement of Retraction