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Bone Structure and Strength in Competitive Gymnasts

2012· article· en· W2287358627 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Scott Stanger

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of undergraduate research in Alberta · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBody Composition Measurement Techniques
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Calgary
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTibiaQuantitative computed tomographyBone mineralBone structureNuclear medicineOrthodonticsBone densityMedicineBone mineral contentSkeleton (computer programming)AnatomyInternal medicineOsteoporosis
DOInot available

Abstract

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Introduction: Participation in high impact sports during growth has shown toincrease bone quality1. Gymnastics is one the of the highest impact sports involvingimpacts of up to 10 times body weight2. Gymnasts have previously displayed increasedbone mass and strength; however, it is not yet understood how bone structure isaffected by gymnastics participation. The purpose of this study was to investigate theroll of gymnastics participation on bone structure and bone strength.Methods: The study recruited 17 highly competitive female gymnasts and 15recreationally active controls (16 to 30 years). Areal bone mineral density (aBMD) andbody composition of the hip, spine, and whole body were determined by dual energyx-ray absorptiometry (DXA, Discovery A, Hologic). Bone structure properties weredetermined for the non-dominant tibia and radius using high resolution peripheralquantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT, Scanco Medical, Brutisellen, Switzerland).Finite element analysis (FEA) was used to determine an in vivo estimation ofbone strength. All data are presented as means standard deviation. Differencesbetween groups were identified with analysis of covariance, adjusting for differencesin body size.Results: Gymnasts had a higher whole body aBMD of 1.0700.122 g/cm2 comparedto controls, 0.9440.123 g/cm2 (p<0.01). Gymnasts also had a larger cross-sectionalarea of their radius, 30539 mm2 versus 24740 mm2 (p<0.01), and tibia, 68365 mm2versus 62666 mm2, than controls. Therefore, FEA revealed gymnasts had strongerbones reflected by a higher failure load, 2830500 N versus 1915503 N (p<0.01) inthe radius, and 7300845 N versus 5810852 N (p<0.01) in the tibia, compared withcontrols.Conclusion: Gymnasts exhibited enhanced bone structure and strength whencompared to inactive controls. The high loading associated with the sport is likely toinduce these desired bone properties.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.167
Threshold uncertainty score0.539

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
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 head0.059
GPT teacher head0.376
Teacher spread0.317 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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