Rehabilitation from delayed bilateral complete quadriceps tendon repairs with knee extension assist braces: A case report
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Simultaneous bilateral quadriceps tears are rare with fewer than 150 cases reported in the literature and typically occur in male patients greater than 40 years of age. If left untreated or with delayed clinical intervention, these injuries often lead to chronic disability including pain and reduced ambulation. Typical treatments include surgical repair with considerable post-operative rehabilitation and a guarded prognosis. However, given the scarcity of these cases, a consensus on a standard course of treatment remains unclear and ultimately at the discretion of the clinician. A 67-year-old male presented 6-months after complete, retracted tears of bilateral quadriceps tendons after a fall onto both knees in flexion. Treatment included: immediate bilateral quadriceps tendon repairs, immobilization, physiotherapy, and the daily use of novel tri-compartment offloader knee braces providing knee-extension assist. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a full return to independent ambulation following a delayed diagnosis and surgical intervention of complete bilateral quadriceps tendon tears.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.012 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.002 |
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.
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".