Effectiveness of propolis in reducing the symptoms of rheumatic diseases in humans
- Conditions
- Rheumatic DiseasesC05.799
- Registration Number
- RBR-7g8p6s
- Lead Sponsor
- Pós Graduação em Ciências da Saúde
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Data analysis completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Inclusion criteria were the clinical diagnosis of tendinitis; bursitis or osteoarthritis and presence of pain resulting from rheumatic disease at the time of initial evaluation. Participants did not do any treatment for rheumatism two weeks before the start or during the clinical trial; or intra-articular corticosteroid injections in the previous three months.
We excluded patients with hypersensitivity to bee toxins, obesity, pregnancy and lactation, gastrointestinal bleeding history, gastric perforation; kidney disease, liver disease; current history of alcoholism, use of anticoagulants; implant prosthesis or pacemaker; severe chronic uncontrolled (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, heart disease and other diseases that by its nature or the proposed treatment could interfere with the assessment).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Improvement in muscle strength tested by manual muscle strength testing, with power increased in a statistically significant way, pre and post intervention.;Pain intensity decreased to articulate said recorded by visual numeric pain scale from obtaining reduction of 3 or more degrees of pain on said scale pre and post intervention.;Increased angulation range of motion (ROM) joint, checked with the goniometry technique, from the observation of an increase of over 30 degrees of ROM, pre and post intervention.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method o reported side effects, checked complaint from the researcher. It was reported no effect throughout the research.