Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess 1)the effectiveness of the curved rear balance shoes in reducing knee pain in patients with knee osteoarthritis(OA) and 2)changes in EMG signal and strength of quadriceps muscle and physical function(ability to react instantly) compared with normal shoes for 8 weeks. The research design was a randomized controlled trial(24 female, knee OA grades Ⅱ-Ⅲ of radiographic evaluation). Subjects were randomized to curved rear balance shoes(n=14) or normal shoes(n=10). The mean IEMG, WOMAC(Korean Western-Ontario & Mcmaster) index questionnaire, peak torque with isometric training system at 90°/s, 150°/s and ability to react instantly were quantified at week 0 and after week 8. Paired t-test(for IEMG) and Repeated measurement design were done for between-group comparison(a=.05). There was a significant increase in average IEMG for quadriceps muscle in the curved rear balance shoes compared with normal shoes. There was an increase of average peak torque but no significant increase in muscle strength over the 8 wks. A knee pain and stiffness in knee after 8 weeks in the curved rear balance shoes was significantly reduced(p<.05). The ability to react instantly was increased but it’s not significant statistically. This result shows that wearing the curved rear balance shoes for 8 wks can reduce pain but it doesnt make people who suffer from knee OA increase quadriceps for muscle strengthen.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".