Quantifying performance metrics of cervical spine mobilization for improved education and clinical outcomes: Early experience with a novel wearable device
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Evaluation of manual skills training for spinal rehabilitation has been stagnant for 40 years. Observation and mimicry are coupled with feedback from "expert" observers to train and evaluate learners, relying on rater experience to discern speed and force. Spinal manipulation is a controlled act under the Regulated Health Professions Act (1991) as it is not without risk. The discordance between current methods for evaluating proficiency and the potential risks of inadequate application is a critical gap. METHODS: This work reports a novel wearable device that measures finger forces via microstrain bending of the physiotherapist's nail. The device leaves the tactile finger pad unobstructed and does not interfere with treatment application. Five expert-level physiotherapists performed a standard postero-anteriorly directed spinal segmental mobilization treatment for 1 min at 1-1.5 Hz rhythm. RESULTS: The device successfully measured all treatment forces (0.2-27.3 N). Physiotherapists applied a maximum force rate of 0.03 ± 0.01 N/s with a rhythm of 1.76 ± 0.38 Hz. In 15 trials, there were no device failures. The device was easily applied and removed, and physiotherapists were able to walk about and interact normally with patients. CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that this technology can be integrated into a skills training program to provide quantitative feedback for objective assessments.
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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.
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| 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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