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Novel Intradiscal Biacuplasty (IDB) for the Treatment of Lumbar Discogenic Pain

2007· article· en· W2073054124 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
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Bibliographic record

VenuePain Practice · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicSpine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineVisual analogue scaleOswestry Disability IndexLumbarLow back painBack painPhysical therapySurgery

Abstract

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Reported here is the treatment of severe axial discogenic pain in a young man utilizing the new minimally invasive transdiscal radiofrequency technique called intradiscal biacuplasty (Baylis Medical Inc., Montreal, Canada). The new procedure is detailed and step-by-step fluoroscopic imaging presented. There were no intra- and postoperative complications, and significant improvements in patient functional capacity, and pain scores were noted. Visual analog scale pain score decreased from 5 to 1 cm at 6-month follow-up, Oswestry disability scores improved from 14 (28% or moderate disability) to 6 points (12% or minimal disability) and SF-36-PF (physical function) score changed from 67 to 82. Potential advantages of cooled, bipolar radiofrequency to heat the posterior annulus are discussed.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.785
Threshold uncertainty score0.522

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.353
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it