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It explicitly combines quantitative workload with qualitative movement demands rather than treating total volume as sufficient.","remaining_difference":"It does not describe a multi-resolution continuity–rupture ledger, classify boundaries as drift/accumulation/threshold/shock/reorganization/measurement artifact, test return-path asymmetry, or compare those classifications reproducibly against the same records interpreted as a linear ramp.","source_ids":["SRC2"]},{"name":"Bern return-to-sport continuum and StARRT framework","overlap":"Treats return to sport as an iterative, criterion-based continuum rather than a terminal clearance event; combines tissue capacity, cumulative stress, context, athlete participation, documented roles, repeated assessment, and reversible load modification.","remaining_difference":"It does not operationalize named movement-mode boundaries as change points or prescribe different transition regimes based on diagnosed boundary dynamics.","source_ids":["SRC1"]},{"name":"Aspetar ACL-reconstruction rehabilitation guideline","overlap":"Recommends individualized criteria-based progression, symptom and swelling monitoring, sport-specific training, and separate assessment of high-speed-running and change-of-direction biomechanics before gradual full participation.","remaining_difference":"It supplies milestones and suggested thresholds but not a cross-scale regime classifier, paired evidence ledger, hysteresis probe, or retrospective incremental-value comparison against aggregate workload progression.","source_ids":["SRC3"]},{"name":"Kitman Labs Performance Medicine return-to-perform workflow","overlap":"A first-party product already centralizes longitudinal injury and rehabilitation records, milestones, roles, load-progression compliance, movement-efficiency measures, historical context, and multidisciplinary updates.","remaining_difference":"The public product description does not claim detection of movement-mode discontinuities, rival-mechanism classification, reversible boundary probes, or reviewer-reproducible regime selection.","source_ids":["SRC4"]}],"contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim is falsified for the audited setting if preregistered boundary coding produces no decision-relevant discordance beyond the baseline interpretation of the same records, movement-specific and aggregate responses remain proportional and scale-stable, or blinded reviewers cannot reproduce the proposed regime classifications.","contrastive_claim_remaining":"Relative to fixed ramps, one-score clearance, existing criteria-based continua, and centralized rehabilitation workflows, a preregistered multi-scale boundary ledger may add reproducible decision information by allowing an otherwise smooth volume ramp to coexist with a separately classified and reversibly gated sprinting, cutting, contact, or fatigued-skill transition. Whether it adds such information remains testable rather than established.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"The bounded search covered the proposal directly, return-to-play and control–chaos terminology, clinical guidance and commercial workflows, and combinations of workload, movement quality, high-speed running, cutting, and staged progression. Exactly four opened sources from BMJ, Aspetar, and Kitman Labs were retained.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"bounded_next_test":{"rationale":"The proposed audit is limited to at most 12 completed cases in one program, uses existing authorized records, preregisters boundaries and coding, employs two blinded reviewers, and stops after reporting feasibility and discordance without changing care or estimating effectiveness.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"distinct_testable_claim":{"rationale":"Existing sources substantially cover continua, demand-specific progression, multidimensional criteria, records, and role coordination, but the incremental-information and inter-reviewer-reproducibility claim for a multi-scale regime classifier remains distinct and directly falsifiable.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"rationale":"The first test is retrospective and de-identified, requires consent and custodian approval, cannot affect clearance or treatment, and preserves licensed clinical authority. This is consistent with prior guidance emphasizing athlete participation, documented roles, clinical safeguards, and criterion-based progression.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"},"supported_problem":{"rationale":"The sources reject return to sport as a single terminal event, caution that quantitative workload alone omits qualitative and reactive movement demands, and require sport-specific, biomechanical, psychological, and clinical criteria. They therefore make the general problem visible, although they do not directly establish the proposal's precise change-point and hysteresis account.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"}},"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","problem_evidence":{"finding":"The general mismatch between aggregate workload or one-time clearance and movement-specific readiness is visible: established frameworks separately progress high-speed running, change of direction, unpredictable actions, symptoms, mechanics, and psychological readiness. Evidence retained here does not directly demonstrate that these additions create formal state transitions or asymmetric return paths, so the precise problem formulation is only partly supported.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P162","screen_survival":true,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["return to sport aggregate workload movement-specific demand discontinuity cutting sprinting study","return to sport \"transition from rehabilitation to team training\" workload movement quality","site:aspetar.com return sport rehabilitation cutting high speed running criteria next day response ACL guideline"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["\"return-to-sport passport\" athlete rehabilitation","\"return to sport\" passport workload rehabilitation","return to sport decision ledger athlete monitoring multidimensional framework"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4"]},"products_practices_and_standards":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["sports medicine software return to play workflow athlete rehabilitation workload monitoring product","Kitman Labs return to play rehabilitation workflow athlete monitoring","NATA return to play position statement medical clearance athlete coach authority"],"source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["return to play transition period rehabilitation training load demands control chaos continuum","return to sport staged progression cutting contact next day response protocol","consensus return to sport decision-making framework load movement quality psychological readiness athlete shared decision"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]}},"sources":[{"claims_supported":["Return to sport should be treated as a continuum parallel to rehabilitation rather than an isolated terminal decision.","Progression should be graded and criterion-based, with sport-specific context, documented roles, athlete participation, repeated review, and reversible load modification.","Aggregate workload measures require complementary functional, reactive, psychological, and sport-specific information."],"publisher":"BMJ Publishing Group","source_id":"SRC1","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"2016 Consensus statement on return to sport from the First World Congress in Sports Physical Therapy, Bern","url":"https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/14/853.full.pdf"},{"claims_supported":["The Control–Chaos Continuum integrates retrospective chronic running-load data with qualitative movement and neurocognitive demands.","It separately and progressively introduces high-speed running, change of direction, accelerations, technical actions, and unanticipated movement through injury-specific phases.","Criteria-based progression can preserve gradual workload development while controlling increasingly risky movement conditions."],"publisher":"BMJ Publishing Group; 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That bounded result cannot establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, implementation value, or clinical benefit."}