Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
Mar 28, 2025
INTRODUCTION: Large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in medical applications. However, their effectiveness in specialized medical domains remains underexplored. The integration of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been proposed to i...
Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
Apr 3, 2024
BACKGROUND: 'Mo-fi-disc' is a new scoring system that quantifies degeneration of the lumbar spine and predicts the intensity of low back pain (LBP). However, its association with LBP-related disability is unknown. In the present study, we aimed to an...
Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
May 24, 2023
BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis of rotator cuff tears is essential for appropriate and timely treatment. Although radiography is the most used technique in clinical practice, it is difficult to accurately rule out rotator cuff tears as an initial imaging...
Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
Sep 23, 2022
BACKGROUND: The Japanese Orthopaedic Association National Registry (JOANR) was recently launched in Japan and is expected to improve the quality of medical care. However, surgeons must register ten detailed features for total hip arthroplasty, which ...
Journal of orthopaedic science : official journal of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association
Feb 8, 2022
BACKGROUND: Identifying elderly individuals with locomotive syndrome is important to prevent disability in this population. Although screening tools for locomotive syndrome are available, these require time commitment and are limited by an individual...