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Foot orthosis treatment improves physical activity but not muscle quantity in patients with concurrent rheumatoid arthritis and sarcopenia
- Source :
- Modern Rheumatology. 31:997-1003
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020.
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Abstract
- Foot impairment in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may exacerbate sarcopenia from physical inactivity because of foot pain while walking. The present study aimed to investigate the prevalence of sarcopenia in patients with RA-associated foot impairment, and whether treatment with a foot orthosis improved physical activity and muscle quantity.Thirty-two patients with RA were diagnosed as sarcopenic or nonsarcopenic, and the prevalence of sarcopenia was determined. Eleven patients with sarcopenia were treated with a foot orthosis. The following parameters were compared between baseline and after 6 months of treatment: physical activity (walking, moderate-intensity activity, and vigorous-intensity activity), foot pain while walking, Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) score, and body composition parameters, including muscle quantity.Sarcopenia was present in 25/32 patients (78.1%). The use of a foot orthosis improved walking activity (Patients with RA-associated foot impairment had a high rate of sarcopenia. Treatment with a foot orthosis increases light-intensity physical activity such as walking, but does not enhance moderate-to-vigorous-intensity activities or increase muscle quantity.
- Subjects :
- 030203 arthritis & rheumatology
Sarcopenia
medicine.medical_specialty
business.product_category
business.industry
Physical activity
Foot Orthoses
medicine.disease
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Rheumatology
Rheumatoid arthritis
medicine
Humans
In patient
030212 general & internal medicine
Muscle, Skeletal
business
Exercise
human activities
Foot (unit)
Foot orthosis
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14397609 and 14397595
- Volume :
- 31
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Modern Rheumatology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....376be3445459e3eef589d07944161ed7