Dynamic exercise therapy for treating rheumatoid arthritis

Tai chi for treating rheumatoid arthritis.

BACKGROUND Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, systemic inflammatory autoimmune disease that results in the destruction of the musculoskeletal system. The major goals of treatment are to relieve pain, reduce inflammation, slow down or stop joint damage, prevent disability, and preserve or improve the person's sense of well-being and ability to function. Tai Chi, interchangeably known as Tai...

Gene therapy for rheumatoid arthritis?

Specific Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

THE term 'specific' is used to describe the effects of drugs like gold and penicillamine in rheumatoid arthritis. This type of action is to be distinguished from the effects of 'nonspecific' or symptomatic therapy, for example with analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs. In rheumatoid arthritis, specific drugs act not only on pain and inflammatory manifestations like swelling and stiffness, but ...

Antiinflammatory therapy for rheumatoid arthritis?

Glucocorticoids, since their spectacular introduction into clinical medicine in 1948 (1), remain a classically efficient treatment for arthritis and other inflammatory conditions (2). Indeed, the discoverers of this therapy were awarded an immediate Nobel Prize. Since then, glucocorticoids have remained a cornerstone in the treatment of chronic inflammation, and despite the introduction of nove...

Gene therapy for rheumatoid arthritis