The effect of foot reflexology massage and stretching exercises in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
- Conditions
- Rheumatoid arthritis.Rheumatoid arthritis, unspecified
- Registration Number
- IRCT2016112931166N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Yasuj University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 75
Criteria for entering trials include: patient's tendency for participating in the trial; being older than 18; definite diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis by the specialist; at least a year must have passed from the diagnosis; owning pain degree of (4-7) and above average based on MFI-20 questionnaire; pain measurement and total fatigue degree 50 and above 50 based on numerical scale; lack of known psychological problems including depression; not being under medication with psychochemical drugs prior to the disease; not being afflicted by other chronic and hazardous diseases; not being afflicted by dermatological disease in feet and sensual disorders in feet; lack of experience of reflexology of metatarsus; lack of wound; fracture and dermatological and movement disorders in feet; passage of at least 4 hours from taking pain killers; not being addicted to drugs; lack of cardiovascular diseases in lower limbs; lack of experience in participating at any regular exercise program in the last six months and being allowed to participate at exercise programs with the specialist's confirmation.
Criteria for existing from the trial include: lack of tendency to continue the cooperation after the trial starts; alteration in any requirements of entering the trial; not being able to perform exercise program due to any reason; taking a new medication during the trial; being absent 4 cessions of the 12 cessions of the trial.
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain. Timepoint: Once the first day of the intervention and before intervention And again on the last day and within 10 minutes after intervention. Method of measurement: Numerical Pain Scale.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Fatigue. Timepoint: Once the first day of the intervention and before intervention And again on the last day and within 10 minutes after intervention. Method of measurement: Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory.