Vascular Occlusion and Rheumatoid Arthritis

University of Sao Paulo

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Treatments: Other: vascular occlusion with exercise trainig; Other: high intensity resistance training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01483157

vascular occlusion and RA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Resistance exercise plus vascular occlusion may induce greater improvements in strength and muscle mass resistance training alone. The investigators speculate this training strategy could be beneficial in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 30 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• female with rheumatoid arthritis
• Disease activity scores > 2.6
• use of anti-TNF-alpha drugs for at least 8 weeks

Exclusion criteria

• BMD < 20 kg/m2
• fibromyalgia
• cardiovascular disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 3 patient groups

low intensity with vascular occlusion

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: vascular occlusion with exercise trainig

high intensity resistance training

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: high intensity resistance training

no exercise training

No Intervention group