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Health Service Researcher @ HIS. Physio, PhD student, Used to play cricket, World's worst fly fisher (Opinions my own)
Aug 14, 2020 24 tweets 5 min read
A thread about our new paper…

A systematic review exploring the evidence reported to underpin exercise dose in clinical trials of rheumatoid arthritis

academic.oup.com/rheumatology/a…

#exercise #rheumatoidarthritis #clinicaltrials
@RheumJnl @thecsp
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In the UK exercise is recommended by NICE alongside pharmaceutical interventions for the management of RA. Strengthening exercise is commonly used to counter the cachectic effects (muscle wasting) due to the disease. As with most things, dose is likely to matter 2/