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Effect of Subthreshold Stimulation on Fatigue in Rheumatoid Arthritis

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Sponsor: Beni-Suef University

Conditions: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Interventions: Subthreshold stimulation, Sham treatment

The study will include 2 groups. The study group will receive subthreshold stimulation, while the control group will receive sham treatment.

Eligibility overview

Sex: ALL

Age: 30 Years to 60 Years

Healthy volunteers: No

Study type: INTERVENTIONAL

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

* Sixty patients with rheumatoid arthritis based on physician diagnosis and referral.

  * The patients' ages ranged from 30 to 55 (Tedeschi et al., 2013).
  * Body mass index ranged from 25-30 kg/m2.
  * Patients diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis 5 years ago.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients had chronic heart failure, cancer, chronic kidney disease, infection, and any other autoimmune disease (García-Morales et al., 2020).

  * Patients had unstable ischemic heart disease or arrhythmia (Lange et al., 2019).
  * Patients had joint surgery within 6 months before inclusion which did not allow them to perform physical activity as arthroplasty (Lange et al., 2019).
  * Patients had received biologics for RA treatments (Lange et al., 2019).