Do people with musculoskeletal pain differ from healthy cohorts in terms of global measures of strength? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

"Conflict of Interest: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Michael Clark is the Founder of Strength Level (‘Strength Level: Weightlifting strength standards’, 2021). Strength Level provides community strength standards for weightlifting, allowing lifters to compare their strength in over 250 exercises. Strength Level provides data for use in scientific research to give back to the community and the conclusions of the study have no impact on the Strength Level business (no conflict of interest). The complete dataset used for this research is available upon request. Enrico Verdini, Jörg Huber, Anthony Turner and Luca Maestroni declare that they have no conflict of interest"

"Funding: The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article."

"The original protocol was registered in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) on 21 April 2021 (registration number: CRD42021249647). The recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses (PRISMA) were followed to prepare, conduct, and report this review."