Hey you guys,
I found an interesting article. We were talking about this past week of Osteoarthritis and how it might be inevitable to someone no matter how early or how many preventative causes we take to stop it. In this article, we see Rheumatoid arthritis and comparing regular physical therapy called "UC (usual care)" to High intensity training as a therapy termed RAPIT (Rheumatoid arthritis patients in training). Basically in this article A study was done on over 300 people, and were either given physical therapy or High intensity training to help remedy their RA. Overall the study found that patients with High intensity training had greater aerobic fitness and muscle strength. This was a good study for me to see because usually studies that have to do with actual exercise are only seen in Osteoarthritis patients and not RA patients with arthritis in their synovial capsules between their joints.
A major problem I have with this study though is that the study doesn't clearly define or really give any detail on what the physical therapy that the patients, who are not participating in RAPIT, go through. The only information that I can find on the paper is information saying the patients went through deemed "normal" physical therapy. This I didn't like, because unlike the UC group, the RAPIT group was clearly defined in what kind of physical activity day they are likely to go through.
What do you guys think about this study?
-Do you agree with me that there in a major problem in the absence of defining the UC (usual care) group?
- Is there any other major problems that you find with the study? such as age? (the range was from age 20-70)
Let me know what you think please.
The links are below:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/art.11216/pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/art.11216/full
-Xavier V.
Thanks for giving us this insight, this is very helpful to every arthritis patient.
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This seems like it could be helpful to a lot of people, but I am kind of questioning how many people would actually be dedicated or willing to try it out. Patients who are older and diagnosed with RA are probably unlikely to want to undergo high intensity training. So while this may help younger patients, older ones (at least a majority of the older people I know) probably wouldn't benefit. I wonder if high intensity training could have an effect on the development of RA. Since it is an autoimmune disease, could exercise help keep it at bay?
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy when exercise becomes a top option for treatements. I also agree that it would have been nice for UC to be described so that we sould have an idea of what the patients are going through in comparission. This would be good to rate the intensity of the physical therapy versus the intensity of the exercise.
ReplyDeleteI think the idea of using high intensity training is a great idea. I really believe in exercise and it working to help many things. But I am curious to see who would use it because people with RA and pain might be not sure whether they could do it
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