Comparison of the Effectiveness of Intraarticular Ozone Therapy and Platelet Rich Plasma Treatment in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis
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Abstract
Background: Platelet rich plasma (PRP) has been applied for a long time in osteoarthritis (OA). Although there are studies about PRP that examining the effectiveness with agents such as hyaluronic acid and corticosteroid, there are few published literature comparing with ozone therapy (OT). The aim of this study is to compare the pain severity and functional status of OA patients undergoing intraarticular ozone and PRP injections. Methods: In a study which is made as prospective, randomized controlled study (RCS), 49 patients were included the study. In the first group (n = 24) OT, in the second group (n = 25) PRP injections were administered intraarticularly 3 times in total with one week intervals. Visual pain scale (VAS) and severity of pain were compared with Western Ontario McMaster Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC). Results: In the PRP group, WOMAC pain, physical function and WOMAC total score were significantly lower than the OT group (p ˂ 0.05). Although VAS score decreased significantly (p ˂ 0.05) after treatment in both groups compared to pretreatment, the VAS score in the PRP group was significantly (p ˂ 0.05) lower than the OT group after treatment. Conclusion: Our study contributes to the literature in terms of limited publication about OT. However, this study shows that the results of PRP treatment are superior to OT in the treatment of knee OA.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".