The Effectiveness of Kinesio Taping on Pain and Function in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized, Single-Blind, Controlled Study
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Abstract
ABS TRACT Objective:The study aimed to determine the effects of additional kinesio taping (KT) over the home exercise program on pain and functionality in patients with knee osteoarthritis.Material and Methods: A total of 60 (47 female, 13 male) adult patients with knee osteoarthritis were included in the study.Patients were randomized into 2 groups; Group I (n=30, KT and home exercises) and Group II (n=30, home exercises only).Both groups received the same home exercise program and the treatment group additionally received KT 3 times at 3-day intervals.Participants were assessed before treatment, at 9 days and 30 days from the beginning of treatment.Pain intensity at rest and during walking was assessed by a 10 cm visual analog scale (VAS).Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) and the Timed Up and Go Test were used for functional evaluation.Results: The study ended with 55 (n=29 in Group I and n=26 in Group II) patients.Both groups displayed significant improvements concerning VAS-pain during walking and Timed Up and Go test scores at the 9 th and 30 th days of treatment (p<0.001).WOMAC total scores improved significantly at the 30 th day of treatment in both groups (p=0.002).No significant differences were found between the 2 groups in any of the outcome measures (p>0.05).Conclusion: This study demonstrated that the addition of KT to a home exercise program in knee osteoarthritis is not superior to the home exercise program only.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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.
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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