Bibliographic record
Abstract
Summary: Failure to appreciate how pain arises in tendinopathies may be limiting medical progress. It is assumed that tendon overuse causes inflammation, and thus pain. We critically review the inflammatory model of pain in tendinopathy and find that it does not withstand scrutiny. The generally proposed alternative model is that of mechanical discontinuity of collagen fibers, but this as well is inconsistent with numerous surgical observations. We review data suggesting that pain of tendinopathy may be largely due to yet unidentified biochemical factors activating peritendinous nociceptors when they are exposed to the environs as a result of tendon overuse injury. The noxious agent could include matrix substances and minor collagens. Glutamate can mediate pain, and this is present in higher concentrations in subjects with Achilles tendinopathy than in controls. Chondroitin sulphate is another candidate. Examining alternative models of pain, particularly a mixed biochemical-mechanical model, may allow significant progress in management of these troublesome conditions.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.013 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".