PLATELET-RICH PLASMA INJECTION IN EARLY OSTEOARTHRITIS KNEE FOLLOW-UP 1 YEAR
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Abstract
Background: Osteoarthritis (OA) knee is one of the most prevalent musculoskeletal disorders in elderly population. It has got various treatment options but most are unsatisfactory. In recent years Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) is emerged as a promising treatment modality and classied as “Orthobiologics”. PRPenhances tissue recovery, by catalysing the body's natural healing response and tissue repair process. Aim And Objectives:Tocompare the efcacies oftreatmentwithPRPinjectionandconservative treatmentwithNSAIDSandexercise inOAknee. Materials And Methods:This was a observational study in which comparisons of different outcomes were made on the efcacies of the treatments with PRPinjection and compared to conservative treatment with NSAIDS and exercise in OAknee. The study was conducted in the Department of Orthopedics in Ramkrishna Mission SevaPratisthan. Atotal number of 60 patients with power 80% were randomly selected from the patients with OA attended OPD during the period from June 2019 to June 2021. The patients were divided into two groups of 30 patients in each group. The patients of the one group were treated with intra-articular PRPinjection and the patients of another group were treated conservatively with NSAIDS and exercise. After the completion of treatment, the patients were followed-up for 1 year and the outcomes of the treatments were assessed by WOMAC (The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index) knee assessment scoring system. Results:At 1 year the completion of treatments it was found that both clinical and functional improvements of the patients were signicantly better than the initiation of treatments (p<0.0001). However, the improvements of the patients treated with PRPinjection were signicantly better than the patients treated conservatively with NSAIDS and exercise (p<0.001). Conclusion: From the results of the study it may be concluded that PRP injection is better than conservative treatment with NSAIDS and exercise to treat OAknee
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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