Comparing Microcurrent Therapy Versus Ultrasound Therapy for Subjects with Chronic Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunctions
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Abstract
Background: This study was designed to compare the effectiveness of Microcurrent therapy versus Ultrasoundtherapy in subjects with Chronic Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunctions.Purpose: To compare the effectiveness of Microcurrent therapy versus Ultrasound therapy using the McGill PainQuestionnaire.Materials and Methods: This experimental study has been conducted from November 2022 to April 2023. A totalof 24 adults with Chronic Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunctions have been selected using the inclusion andexclusion criteria. They have been split into 2 groups Group A (n=12) and Group B (n=12) were assigned. GroupA got Microcurrent therapy, whereas Group B received Ultrasound therapy. The McGill Pain Questionnaire wasused to evaluate the subjects.Results: The mean value of Microcurrent therapy at the post-test was found to be higher than the mean value ofUltrasound therapy with a p-value of <0.0001.Conclusion: The result suggests that Microcurrent therapy shows a significant effect in reducing pain in ChronicTemporomandibular Joint Dysfunctions when compared to Ultrasound therapy.
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Full frame machine prediction
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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.003 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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