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Record W4409536385 · doi:10.1136/bcr-2024-263172

Onset of chronic pain triggered by a lifestyle-change-based weight loss and exercise regimen

2025· article· en· W4409536385 on OpenAlexaff
Lily Dawn Hopkinson, Samira Jafari, Elvin Frempong, Saman Zarghom

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ Case Reports · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicFibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of TorontoUniversity of Guelph
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFibromyalgiaWeight lossMedicineChronic painAnxietyRegimenPhysical therapyDepression (economics)ObesityPsychological interventionInternal medicinePsychiatry

Abstract

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Exercise and weight loss are commonly recommended to patients with chronic pain; these interventions can relieve extra stress on the joints, reduce the perception of pain and combat comorbidities such as obesity, anxiety and depression. However, exercise can also exacerbate existing pain, presenting challenges for adherence to exercise and weight loss regimens. Here, we summarise the unique case of a patient who presented with chronic pain that developed during a natural weight loss regimen. The patient sought assessment due to diffuse pain that commenced after significant weight loss and was exacerbated with continued adherence to lifestyle modifications. He received a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and is currently being treated with nerve blocks and local anaesthetic injections of trigger points. This case of onset of fibromyalgia and chronic pain following lifestyle changes and weight loss underscores the need for further research aiming to understand the complex relationship between exercise, weight loss and chronic pain.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Case report · Consensus signal: Case report
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0020.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.317
Teacher spread0.296 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designCase report
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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