Description Of Injuries Among Cirque Du Soleil Artists 2002-2006
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Abstract
The Circus arts performed by companies like Cirque du Soleil represent a rapidly growing athletic activity. Most artists are performing activities similar to highly competitive activities such as gymnastics, diving, and dance. The first step in any injury prevention program is to document the frequency and types of injuries that occur. PURPOSE: To describe the frequency of injuries according to anatomical location and type among Cirque du Soleil artists over a 5 year period from 2002 to 2006. METHODS: We obtained injury data from the Cirque du Soleil injury database. The database is used as an electronic patient record and records all injuries and associated treatments. We included any injury that occurred between Jan 1, 2002 and Dec 31, 2006 inclusive. We excluded any duplicate records for which the artist, injury date and location were identical. If a second injury was recorded to the same anatomical location within 3 months of the index injury date, we hand-searched the comments associated with the injuries and excluded any injuries that were exacerbations or re-injuries. We also excluded all personal health conditions and injuries that were not related to show or training. RESULTS: There was a total of 6000 injuries over the 5 year period. Lower extremity injuries were more common in general. In the lower extremity, and the knee (∼28%) and ankle (∼28%) were the most commonly injured areas of the lower extremity. The shoulder represented 50% of injuries to the upper extremity. Most injuries were to muscles and tendons (∼45%) and fractures or injuries to the nervous system (including concussions) were very rare (less than 5% together). Fifty percent of the injuries were very rare (less than 5% together). Fifty percent of the injuries required 2 treatments or less, and 80% of the injuries required 7 treatments or less. Overall, there was no difference in the anatomical location or types of injuries suffered by males and females (p>0.6), and the pattern of injuries has remained consistent from year to year (p>0.6). CONCLUSIONS: Circus arts performers incur injuries consistent with those of elite athletes in other activities. There is no difference in the pattern of injury among males and females.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".