Employment of the Rheumatoid Arthritic

Psychosocial factors in rehabilitation of the chronic rheumatoid arthritic.

For the past two years we have engaged in a research project devoted to the problems of rehabilitation among chronically disabled rheumatoid arthritis patients. To be admitted to the study, patients had to be severely disabled, and their disease process had to be still in an active phase. Our objective was to determine the feasibility of a combined programme of hormone therapy and physical medi...

Arthromyodysplasia congenita; simulating the arthritic manifestation of "rheumatoid disease".

"Rheumatoid disease" in its acute or chronic form with systemic or local manifestations may simulate many diseases in general medicine. Local manifestations may resemble many specific arthritides and bony and muscular lesions with secondary joint involvement (Ellman, 1947; Ellman and Ball, 1948), and two cases of a chondro-osseous dystrophy, which had been regarded as an arthritic manifestation...

Excretion of 11-oxycorticosteroids in Paraplegic and Rheumatoid Arthritic Patients.

Plasma proteins and cryoglobulins in an arthritic rheumatoid disease.

In previous communications (Bagratuni, 1953, 1956) a syndrome was described occurring in the middle-aged and elderly which was designated ("anarthritic" rheumatoid disease. The main symptoms were severe aching of the muscles of the shoulder girdle and back, fever, and loss of weight, but without joint involvement. The erythrocyte sedimentation rate in active cases was exceptionally high, about ...

The effectiveness of treatment based on the model of emotional regulation strategies on pain anxiety in patients with arthritic rheumatoid disease

 Aims and background: Arthritis is a chronic and debilitating inflammatory disease, the main symptoms of which are arthritis, including morning dryness, swelling of the affected joints, and eventually joint deformity, and are associated with some psychological variables. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies-based thera...