Effects of underwater ultrasound therapy on pain, inflammation, hand function and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis – a randomized controlled trial

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effects of underwater ultrasound (US) therapy in 48 patients with moderately active rheumatoid arthritis (disease activity score in 28 joints [DAS28] > 3.2 and < 5.1). METHODS: Patients randomly assigned to the ultrasound group (n = 25) received underwater contin...

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Autores principales: Király, Márta, Varga, Zsuzsanna, Szanyó, Ferenc, Kiss, Rita, Hodosi, Katalin, Bender, Tamás
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Departamento de Fisioterapia da Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos 2017
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28442212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjpt.2017.04.002

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