Physical Therapy for Rheumatoid Arthritis

Physical therapy in rheumatoid arthritis.

I N SPITE of new discoveries and advances in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, the most important part of the management of patients with this disease today is the prevention or minimizing of deformity and the maintenance or improvement of function. The numerous remedies that have been promoted for use in arthritis tend to detract from the appreciation of the value of physical treatment in...

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