Retrospective Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Intra-Articular Steroid, Hyaluronic Acid and Ozone Injection in the Treatment of Chronic Hip Pain Due to Osteoarthritis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Objective: The treatment of chronic hip pain due to osteoarthritis is usually symptomatic, and a wide variety of treatment methods can be used. Intra-articular drug injections are frequently used among the treatment methods. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of intra-articular steroid hyaluronic acid and ozone injections in the treatment of hip osteoarthritis, retrospectively. Material and Methods: Clinical data of 119 patients treated with intra-articular steroid (n=40, Group I), hyaluronic acid (n=39, Group II), and ozone (n=40, Group III) were retrospectively analyzed. Demographic data of the patients, Visual Analog Scale (VAS) before and 1st and 3rd month after the procedure, the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) scales were recorded. Results: The patients' pain scores before and after the procedure (month 1 and month 3) are as follows: VAS (Group I: 8.10→3.43→2.23), (Group II: 7.05→4.08→3.46), (Group III: 7.08→3.75→3.00). WOMAC (Group I: 45.83→22.39→16.34), (Group II: 46.29→28.11→27.74), (Group III: 46.42→26.71→26.06). Conclusion: It was observed that the applied treatment methods were effective and a significant reduction was found in the VAS and WOMAC scores of the patients in all 3 groups. In the comparison between the groups, it was seen that steroid injection provided better pain control than other methods (p<0.042).
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 distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
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 teacher head, 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".