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Tips to Get Knee Replacement Patients to Increase Their Physical Activity

July 19, 2018 • By Linda Childers

Although total knee replacement (TKR) surgery can improve pain and function in individuals with knee osteoarthritis (OA), many patients who are sedentary before undergoing TKR don’t increase their physical activity levels after surgery. A new study led by Elena Losina, PhD, of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, examined… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Osteoarthritis Tagged With: Exercise, knee replacement, physical activity

New Study Examines the Physical Activity & Joint Symptom Risk

April 26, 2018 • By Elizabeth Hofheinz, MPH, MEd

If you’re a middle-aged woman who makes a New Year’s resolution to work out regularly and you keep that promise for only six months, don’t think that will go far in protecting your joints. Researchers in Australia have homed in on the details of the sustained physical activity required to reduce the risk of joint… [Read More]

Filed Under: Rheumatoid Arthritis Tagged With: BMI, Hormone Therapy, joints, menopause, physical activity

Menopause Linked with Functional Decline in Rheumatoid Arthritis

February 14, 2018 • By Scott Baltic

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)—In women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), menopause is associated with both functional decline and an acceleration of that decline, according to a longitudinal study from the U.S. However, several factors involving increased hormonal exposure were associated with less-severe functional decline in women with RA: ever having received hormonal replacement therapy (HRT), ever… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Rheumatoid Arthritis Tagged With: disability, function, menopause, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Women

Pedometers & RA: Does Increasing Physical Activity Decrease Fatigue?

January 2, 2018 • By Arthritis Care & Research

Recent research examined the effectiveness of a pedometer-based intervention for managing fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). During the 21-week trial, RA patients using pedometers successfully increased their physical activity, with a greater than 30% decrease in the proportion of participants classified as sedentary. Patients also decreased their reported fatigue, and some reported improvements in function, pain, depressive symptoms and disease activity levels…... [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Rheumatoid Arthritis Tagged With: Arthritis Care & Research, Exercise, fatigue, pedometers, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), walking

Heated Gloves Provide Relief from Hand Pain, Dysfunction in Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis

November 10, 2017 • By Rosemarie A. Curley, MPT, DPT

Raynaud’s phenomenon in scleroderma or systemic sclerosis (SSc) is associated with significant discomfort and functional disability, especially in the presence of digital ulcers.1 Having lived with diffuse systemic sclerosis (dSSc) for nearly a decade, I can attest to this. It has been my experience that the hand pain and dysfunction in dSSc stems from Raynaud’s… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Opinion, Systemic Inflammatory Syndromes Tagged With: acro-osteolysis, circulation, diffuse systemic sclerosis, digital ulcer, effectiveness, episodes, hand function, hand warmers, heated gloves, Pain Medication, Raynaud’s phenomenon, Scleroderma, swelling, symptom relief, Treatment, vasculopathy

Physical Activity, Exercise Can Benefit Patients with RA

November 9, 2017 • By August Floden, PT, MS

While medical advances in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have led to improvements in disease control and quality of life for patients worldwide, the rate for stable remission remains low.1 Management of RA symptoms is traditionally accomplished through a combination of medications and nonpharmacological interventions.2 This approach can prevent the development of secondary adverse health outcomes. Two… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Practice Management, Rheumatoid Arthritis Tagged With: Exercise, Medication, patient care, physical activity, Physical Therapy, RA, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatologist, rheumatology

Fulbright Scholar Researches Physical Activity in Swedish Children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

October 18, 2017 • By Carina Stanton

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A stroll through downtown Stockholm presents a quintessential picture of an active community, with most people biking or walking as their preferred mode of travel. Yet children in Sweden who live with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)—currently estimated at around 64 of every 100,000—don’t always engage in this active lifestyle.1 Maura Daly Iversen, PT, DPT, SD,… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Profiles Tagged With: Dr. Maura Iverson, Fulbright Scholarship, JIA, Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, patient care, Pediatric, physical activity, Research, rheumatology, Sweden

Heated Gloves May Improve Hand Function in Diffuse Systemic Sclerosis

October 16, 2017 • By Rosemarie Curley, MPT, DPT, & Jeananne Elkins, PT, PhD, DPT, MPH

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Systemic sclerosis (SSc), a subtype of scleroderma, is a rare, complex autoimmune disease characterized by widespread vasculopathy of the small arteries and fibroblast dysfunction.1,2 It has been described as a fibrosing micro­vascular disease, because vascular injury precedes and leads to tissue fibrosis.3 The resulting Raynaud’s phenomenon, pain, skin thickening and tightening, and multi-organ involvement have… [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions, Systemic Inflammatory Syndromes Tagged With: Clinical, drug therapy, hand function, hand warmers, heated gloves, intervention, non-pharmaceutical therapies, outcome, patient care, Raynaud’s phenomenon, Research, rheumatologist, Scleroderma, studies, Systemic sclerosis, tissue fibrosis, Treatment, vasculopathy

Skype-Based Biopsychosocial Treatments Help Save Physical Therapy Patients Time, Trouble

September 19, 2017 • By Elizabeth Hofheinz, MPH, MEd

It’s a bit ironic that when injured people are in pain—and their mobility is reduced—they are often expected to travel to a physical therapy clinic. For millions of people, such trips are a burden. In Australia, however, some patients are “letting movement come to them.” Novel research from The University of Melbourne shows that taking… [Read More]

Filed Under: Practice Management, Technology Tagged With: biopsychosocial, Exercise, Internet, online, Pain Management, patient care, Physical Therapy, Practice Management, Research, Skype, study, Treatment

How to Leverage Physical Therapy & Technology to Help Patients Stay Fit & Decrease Pain

March 28, 2017 • By Carina Stanton

For patients living with rheumatic diseases, the benefits of physical therapy and exercise cannot be overstated. “Working with a physical therapist provides a chance for careful evaluation of how the patient is moving and experiencing pain,” says Maura Iversen, BSc, PT, DPT, SD, MPH…... [Read More]

Filed Under: Conditions Tagged With: Exercise/physical therapy, physical activity, Physical Therapy, Technology

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