The effect of two exercise programs on various functional outcome measures in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee: A randomized controlled clinical trial
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Abstract
We aimed to investigate the effects of isometric and combined concentric-eccentric (C-E) isokinetic types of exercise applied to the knee muscles in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA) in an attempt to identify which type of exercise would be most effective in terms of pain relief, functional status, quality of life, and muscular strength. This was a controlled trial in which 71 patients were randomized into three groups. The first group was assigned to C-E, the second group to isometric isokinetic exercises, while the third, control group, was only given paracetamol. A visual analog scale for pain, Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) and Short From-36 (SF-36) for functional status and quality of life, and the isokinetic test for muscular strength were evaluated. Significant improvements were recorded in all groups for pre and post-treatment pain, the WOMAC and the SF-36 (P< 0.001). Among the exercise groups, improvement was significantly better in the C-E, isokinetic exercise group as compared with the isometric exercise group (P < 0.001). Isokinetic exercises are recommended as a treatment modality. However, the long-term effects of these exercises on pain and osteoarthritis progression need to be investigated.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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