Laser Acupuncture in Rheumatoid Arthritis Geriatric Patients

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Treatments: Combination Product: Laser, exercise, and methotrexate; Combination Product: Exercise, and methotrexate

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04758689

REC/002-2021

Details and patient eligibility

About

Studying the effect of laser acupuncture on geriatric patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients referred from physician (immunologist) diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients having the disease overlapping with other connective tissue diseases, such as systematic lupus erythromatosus and systematic sclerosis.
• History of malignancies.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Laser acupuncture and aerobic exercise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Combination Product: Laser, exercise, and methotrexate

Aerobic exercise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Combination Product: Exercise, and methotrexate