Quantitative gait analysis — comparison of rheumatoid arthritic and non-arthritic subjects

Health-care use by rheumatoid arthritis patients compared with non-arthritic subjects.

OBJECTIVE To compare the use of health-care by rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients and non-arthritic subjects (NA) and to look for factors determining their patterns of health-care use. METHODS A multicentre cohort of 223 RA and 446 NA subjects matched for age, gender, period of data collection and residence were questioned about their use of health-care services. Patterns of health-care use w...

Fibronectin in rheumatoid and non-rheumatoid arthritic synovial fluids and in synovial fluid cryoproteins.

Concentrations of fibronectin, immunoglobulins G, M, and A, and C3 and C4 components of complement, and other plasma proteins were determined in synovial fluids from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and other diseases (non-RA). Fibronectin concentrations were two to three times greater in all synovial fluids than in plasma, and RA synovial fluids had a significantly higher mean concentra...

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

Gait change after local anesthetic of chronically arthritic knee.

Gait alterations of chronic knee arthritis before and after injection of local anesthesia was measured in the orthopedist's office area. A portable gait analyzer was used to evaluate gait characteristics before and after injection of local anesthesia in the chronically arthritic knee. Gait was analyzed during a 400-meter walk. Overall velocity and cadence increased 3.3% (p = 0.016) and 2.8% (p ...

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 ...