Experimental Assessment between Dissimilar Techniques and Methodologies to Sports Knee Injury using Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The anterior cruciate ligaments, which are crucial for conserving the normal biomechanics of human being knees, are the majority commonly injured knee-ligaments. An anterior cruciate ligament injury is originated by a split or wrench of the anterior cruciate ligaments, which are imperative ligaments in the knee. ACL injure is mainly and frequently caused by sports like football, soccer, and the like that require quick pauses or direction changes, jumping, and landings. These days, the area of diagnostics heavily relies on magnetic resonance imaging. It is effective in determining the presence of meniscal tears and damage to the cruciate ligament. This study\u27s primary objective is to use magnetic resonance imaging knee images to find anterior cruciate ligament tears, which can be useful in identifying issues with the knee. Inception-v3, an established deep transfer learning (DTL) model based on a DCNN was used in this study to classify anterior cruciate ligament tears in MRI scans. Classification, Preprocessing, and feature extraction are the major processes used in the current study executions. The dataset type utilized in this article of research study was built using the MRNet database. Seventy percent of the data set is used for preparation and testing, while the lingering thirty percent is utilized for performance analysis in this comparison model. The future augmented methodology can improve upon the present models\u27 performance through the application of DL and ML techniques

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on postpartum contraception services in women delivering at a tertiary care centre in South India

Background: Contraception and sexual health are a fundamental human right and an integral part of women’s health services. Postpartum period is the unique opportunity for counselling and availing contraception. COVID-19 pandemic hindered routine and special services like postpartum clinics has negative impact on family planning services. Objectives were to assess the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on postpartum contraceptive care services received and to describe the challenges faced in availing these services among pregnant women delivering at a tertiary care centre in South India.Methods: A descriptive study carried out in 422 women who had delivered at our hospital from July 2020 to October 2020. Data was collected in Epicollect version 5 and analysed using Stata version 14.2.Results: A total of 422 women were interviewed. Only one-third of the participants received contraceptive counselling in the antenatal period compared to 90% postpartum. 39% (primiparous-34%/multiparous-5%) had adopted barrier methods followed by post-partum intrauterine uterine contraceptive devices in 33% (primiparous-19.6%/multiparous-13.4%) and 5% had sterilisation concurrent with caesarean section. Around 30-40% of women faced challenges in accessing the family planning methods due to closure of elective services like postpartum clinics, operation theatres, nationwide lockdown, and non-availability of field health workers.Conclusions: Contraceptive choices for postpartum women appear to be largely restricted to temporary methods with additional challenges of availing these services during the pandemic. With the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and continuous need for contraception, there is a need to refocus and motivate eligible couples for long-acting reversible contraceptive methods (LARC) with significantly lower failure rates

Efficacy of Cupping Therapy Compared to Acupuncture in Patients with Periarthritis of Shoulder: A Comparitive study

BACKGROUND: Periarthritis shoulder (PAS) is a major musculoskeletal disability characterized by insidious onset, progressive pain and loss of active and passive mobility in the glenohumeral joint. The incidence of PAS is between 3%-5% in the general population and as high as 20% among individuals with diabetes. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Cupping therapy and Acupuncture plays major role in treating PAS. Cupping therapy is the ancient technique of healing. It is valuable in restoring the balance between Yin-Yang by strengthening the body resistance, ejecting the pathogenic factors, and promoting blood circulation to alleviate the pain. Acupuncture to treat musculoskeletal pain is being used increasingly to confer an analgesic effect. The aim of the study is to compare the Effectiveness of Cupping Therapy on Local points SI.15 (Jianzhongshu), GB.21 (Chienching), SI.9 (Chiencheng) and Acupuncture at specific point St.38 (Tiaokou) on PAS. METHODS: Sixty subjects were randomly assigned into Cupping therapy group (CTG, n=30) and Acupuncture group (AG, n=30). Both groups were assessed at baseline and at the end of 4 sessions for Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Shoulder pain and its disability index (SPADI) and the range of motion (ROM). Intervention was given weekly once for four weeks. .In CTG, Sterile fiber glass cups are placed over the Acupuncture points like SI.15 (Jianzhongshu), GB.21 (Chienching), SI.9 (Chiencheng) for 20 min. For AG, Sterile needle was placed for 20 min on St.38 (Tiaokou) RESULT: Both Cupping therapy and Acupuncture groups, shows improvements within the group in VAS, total SPADI score and ROM. But Cupping therapy shows significant changes in both statistically and clinically in VAS score (p<0.001), pain index (p<0.003), disability index (p<0.002), total SPADI score (p<0.001), shoulder flexion (p<0.005), abduction (p<0.05) and external rotation (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: Cupping Therapy and Acupuncture may have similar effect in management of shoulder pain and its restriction which was measured through VAS, SPADI and range of motion – flexion, abduction and external rotation. However Cupping Therapy showed higher therapeutic benefits on patients with PAS

PO Assessment and Attainment through POGIL Based Classes

This paper describes the development of POGIL based instructional design classes for complex engineering problems described in the Program Outcomes (PO) of National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India accreditation criteria. Embedded system Design course in Electronics and Communication Engineering course (ECE) is considered for experimentation. Subsequently it aims at providing students and interested fresh faculty an opportunity to design and build the project on their own. The aim of the project is to design a round robin based embedded system where the tasks are of their choice. To structure and complete their design part, both students and faculty were posed with a large number of questions. They were asked to refer literature and data sheets for their work. Once the design part was reviewed to avoid critical errors, students built their project and compared solutions to theoretical predictions. Feedback was collected and analysed to determine the effectiveness of POGIL in PO attainment. The reflections given by both faculty and students were positive, in particular students found that solving complex engineering problems are quite difficult and challenging compared to other prescribed book end exercises but POGIL helped them to be more constructive to build their knowledge.</jats:p