- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) commonly affects the hands and wrists with inflammation, deformity, pain, weakness and restricted mobility leading to reduced function. The effectiveness of exercise for RA hands is uncertain, although evidence from small scale studies is promising. The Strengthening And Stretching for Rheumatoid Arthritis of the Hand (SARAH) trial is a pragmatic, multi-centre randomised controlled trial evaluating the clinical and cost effectiveness of adding an optimis...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Publisher's version
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Ltd. Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC musculoskeletal disorders Journal website
- Volume:
- 13
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 230
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2474
- ISSN:
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1471-2474
- URN:
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uuid:88d9fcb3-fa5a-4000-97dc-265ebaacb95b
- Source identifiers:
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367705
- Local pid:
- pubs:367705
- Copyright holder:
- SARAH Trial Team et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2012
- Notes:
- © 2012 SARAH Trial Team et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Strengthening and stretching for rheumatoid arthritis of the hand (SARAH): design of a randomised controlled trial of a hand and upper limb exercise intervention--ISRCTN89936343.
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