Immediate effects of two modes of shortwave diathermy in chronic low back pain: randomized controlled clinical trial
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Aim evaluate the immediate results of short-wave diathermy (SWD) in individuals with chronic low back pain (CLBP).Materials and Methods individuals with CLBP, aged between 18 and 80, of both sexes, were selected for a double-blind, 3-arm, randomized, and controlled trial. The outcomes assessed were: pain by Numeric Rating Scale for pain (NRS), McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), and Pressure Pain Threshold (PPT); disability; strength and power of lower limbs and flexibility of spine and lower limbs. The participants were randomized into three groups: continuous SWD (cSWD, n = 50), pulsed SWD (pSWD, n = 50), and placebo group (PG, n = 50). All groups received a single application of SWD for 30 mins and underwent assessment at three stages: pre-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up.Results we found a significant difference between cSWD and PG in NRS (p < 0.05). Only pSWD showed a significant intergroup difference with PG in sensory and total MPQ index (p < 0.05). There were improvements in intra-group disability in pSWD and PG, in flexibility only in cSWD, and the power of lower limb post-intervention only in pSWD.Conclusions SWD endowed an immediate analgesic effect in individuals with CLBP.Clinical trial registration The www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br/rg/RBR-2k58f5h/ identifier is RBR- 2k58f5h.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
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".