Knee loading and joint pain during daily activities in people with knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Knee loading is associated with the severity and progression of knee osteoarthritis, while knee pain contributes to reduced functional ability and quality of life. In this systematic review, we quantified knee loading and knee pain during different daily activities in people with knee osteoarthritis and explored methodological reasons for differences between studies.

Methods: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and manual searches were performed up to July 2024, to retrieve studies measuring knee loading and knee pain in walking, sit-to-stand and stair climbing of people with knee osteoarthritis.

The impact of culture and lived experiences on health professions education and practice.

Health professions educators are not immune to the impact our lived experiences and associated cultures, including healthcare professional/higher education culture, can have on the development and manifestation of biases. These biases can impact students during the admissions process, their interactions with faculty in the classroom, selection for rewards and recognition, and access to research opportunities. Likewise, our colleagues can be affected during the hiring process, in their assignment to committees, and during the promotion and tenure process.

Searching for Asymmetric and Heavily Precessing Binary Black Holes in the Gravitational Wave Data from the LIGO Third Observing Run.

Leveraging the features of the GstLAL pipeline, we present the results of a matched filtering search for asymmetric binary black hole systems with heavily misaligned spins in LIGO and Virgo data taken during the third observing run. Our target systems show strong imprints of precession whereas current searches have nonoptimal sensitivity in detecting them. After measuring the sensitivity improvement brought by our search over standard spin-aligned searches, we report the detection of 30 gravitational wave events already discovered in the latest version of the Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog.

Synchronised Video, Motion Capture and Force Plate Dataset for Validating Markerless Human Movement Analysis.

The BioCV dataset is a unique combination of synchronised multi-camera video, marker based optical motion capture, and force plate data, observing 15 healthy participants (7 males, 8 females) performing controlled and repeated motions (walking, running, jumping and hopping), as well as photogrammetry scan data for each participant. The dataset was created for the purposes of developing and validating the performance of computer vision based markerless motion capture systems with respect to marker based systems.

Predictors of trigeminal neuropathy in patients receiving Gamma Knife stereotactic radiosurgery for vestibular schwannoma.

Objective: The authors' objective was to validate dosimetric and clinical predictors of the development of trigeminal neuropathy (Tn) in patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for a diagnosis of vestibular schwannoma (VS).

Methods: In total, 301 patients were treated with SRS for VS at the authors' center between April 2013 and June 2020, with a median prescription dose of 12.5 Gy.