Parkinson's disease without tremor masquerading as mechanical back pain; a case report.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The clinical features of a 67-year-old female suffering recurrent low back pain (LBP) who developed Parkinson's disease (PD) are presented. PD is a progressive, age-specific neuro-degenerative disorder characterized by a combination of bradykinesia (slowness of movement), rest tremor (initially unilaterally and usually of the hands), rigidity or stiffness of the arms, legs or neck, and/or postural instability. Other non-motor and cognitive symptoms may accompany these features. Tremor, at rest, is usually the earliest and most prominent cardinal symptom of PD, but is absent in approximately 30% of patients. Considering mechanical back pain commonly presents with slowed movement and gait disturbance due to pain avoidance behavior, and considering Canada's population is aging and living longer will inevitably cause the number of Parkinson's patients to increase, it is important for chiropractic doctors to maintain an awareness of the condition to facilitate its early referral, diagnosis and management.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
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; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".