Comparing face-to-face and internet-based basic body awareness therapy for fibromyalgia: a randomized controlled trial
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Abstract
This study aimed to investigate and compare the effecs of face-to-face and internet-based Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT), in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). FM-diagnosed patients were randomly allocated to one of three groups: face-to-face BBAT (F2F-BBAT), internet-based BBAT (I-BBAT), or a waiting list control group (CG). The F2F-BBAT group underwent individual 8-week BBAT sessions (2 sessions per week). The I-BBAT group received an equivalent dosage of BBAT via online video conferencing software. The primary outcome was the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire Revised (FIQR). Secondary outcomes included the pressure pain threshold (PPT) via algometer, the PostureScreen Mobile® (PSM) application, the Short Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ), the Short Form 36 Health Survey (SF-36), and plasma fibrinogen and haptoglobin levels. A total of 41 patients completed the study. Both the F2F-BBAT (n = 14) and I-BBAT (n = 13) groups showed significant improvements in all outcome measures (p < 0.05) with no significant difference between them (p > 0.05). Conversely, the CG (n = 14) demonstrated no substantial improvements in the outcome measures (p > 0.05). Compared to the CG, both the F2F-BBAT and I-BBAT groups exhibited superior results in FIQR, PPT, PSM, SF-MPQ, and multiple SF-36 sub-parameters (p < 0.05). This study showed that BBAT delivered via internet-based telerehabilitation can have comparable effective results on clinical parameters with conventional face-to face BBAT in patients with FM. ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT04981132. Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT), a physiotherapy approach gaining increasing recognition for managing fibromyalgia (FM), offers enhanced accessibility to treatment through internet-based telerehabilitation.The clinical parameters observed with BBAT delivered via internet-based telerehabilitation at 8 weeks were comparable to those of conventional face-to-face BBAT in patients with FMInternet-based Basic Body Awareness Therapy (I-BBAT) may be preferred as an alternative treatment method for patients with fibromyalgia, rather than face to face.Furthermore, I-BBAT emerges as a beneficial option for public health, as it provides an easy and low-cost system for patients to access therapy through physiotherapists, thereby also facilitating physiotherapists’ ability to reach and support their patients effectively. Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT), a physiotherapy approach gaining increasing recognition for managing fibromyalgia (FM), offers enhanced accessibility to treatment through internet-based telerehabilitation. The clinical parameters observed with BBAT delivered via internet-based telerehabilitation at 8 weeks were comparable to those of conventional face-to-face BBAT in patients with FM Internet-based Basic Body Awareness Therapy (I-BBAT) may be preferred as an alternative treatment method for patients with fibromyalgia, rather than face to face. Furthermore, I-BBAT emerges as a beneficial option for public health, as it provides an easy and low-cost system for patients to access therapy through physiotherapists, thereby also facilitating physiotherapists’ ability to reach and support their patients effectively.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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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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