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Effects of 30-min of walking on knee total joint moment asymmetry in asymptomatic adults

2025· article· en· W4416396854 on OpenAlexafffund
Carson Halliwell, Meaghan Hannigan, Ryan Matthews, Rob MacLeod, R. Moyer

Bibliographic record

VenueGait & Posture · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTotal Knee Arthroplasty Outcomes
Canadian institutionsDalhousie UniversityUniversité de Sherbrooke
FundersCanadian Arthritis NetworkArthritis Society
KeywordsAsymmetryAsymptomaticKnee JointMoment (physics)Joint (building)

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: Gait asymmetry is considered an indicator of healthy gait and used in clinical and research settings to assess movement. While walking is commonly prescribed to promote cardiovascular health and assess gait under controlled conditions, prolonged walking may disrupt gait asymmetry. This study examined changes in knee total joint moment (TJM) asymmetry following a 30-min treadmill walk in asymptomatic adults. METHODS: Participants completed five overground walking trials at a self-selected speed before and after a 30-min treadmill walk. Three-dimensional motion capture and ground reaction forces were used to calculate knee joint moments. The TJM was calculated as a composite measure of the net external knee frontal, sagittal, and transverse moments, and absolute inter-limb asymmetry in the TJM was calculated. Paired samples t-tests and 95 % bootstrapped confidence intervals were used to assess the expected change in TJM asymmetry following the 30-min walk. Statistical parametric mapping assessed differences in knee frontal, sagittal and transverse plane moments before and after the treadmill walk. RESULTS: Twenty-one asymptomatic adults (age 61 ± 10 years, 14 F/7 M) were recruited for this study. Following the treadmill walk TJM asymmetry increased by 10.1 % (95 %CI: 4.88-16.1, p = 0.005, d=0.73), with 76 % of participants increasing asymmetry post-walk driven primarily by an increase in the peak frontal plane moment (p = 0.013). CONCLUSIONS: This study provides a benchmark for clinicians and researchers to gauge the expected change in TJM asymmetry in healthy adults following a 30-min walking intervention. We observed that asymmetry increases by approximately 5-16 % in this population; however, high inter-individual variability was noted.

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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)0.001
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: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.003
GPT teacher head0.231
Teacher spread0.228 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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