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Physiotherapy for anterior knee pain: a randomised controlled trial

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of the individual components of physiotherapy in subjects with anterior knee pain. METHODS An observer blind, prospective, factorial design randomised controlled ...
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FRI0293 Validation of the revised selena flare index in systemic lupus erythematosus

Background The SELENA flare index (SFI) has functioned well in clinical and clinical trial settings (1), but has the limitation that it classifies only severe versus combined mild/moderate flares.
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OP0008 SAFETY AND EFFICACY OF ISCALIMAB IN PATIENTS WITH SJÖGREN’S DISEASE: 48-WEEK RESULTS FROM A RANDOMISED, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED, PHASE 2B DOSE ...

2 University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Rheumatology, Birmingham, United Kingdom 3 University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom 4 NIHR Birmingham Biomedical ...
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The global burden of hip and knee osteoarthritis: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study

Objective To estimate the global burden of hip and knee osteoarthritis (OA) as part of the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study and to explore how the burden of hip and knee OA compares with other ...
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Germline genetic patterns underlying familial rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and primary Sjögren’s syndrome highlight T cell-initiated autoimmunity

Objectives Familial aggregation of primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and co-aggregation of these autoimmune diseases (ADs) (also called ...
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Quadriceps weakness in knee osteoarthritis: the effect on pain and disability

a Rheumatology Unit, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, b Department of Public Health Medicine and Epidemiology, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham Dr O’Reilly. OBJECTIVES (1) To determine the ...
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EULAR Sjögren's Syndrome Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI): development of a consensus patient index for primary Sjögren's syndrome

Objectives To develop a score for assessment of patients' symptoms in primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS): the EULAR SS Patient Reported Index (ESSPRI). Methods Dryness, pain, somatic and mental fatigue ...
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Aerobic walking or strengthening exercise for osteoarthritis of the knee? A systematic review

Academic Rheumatology, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, UK Correspondence to: Dr Edward Roddy Academic Rheumatology, Clinical Sciences Building, Nottingham City ...
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Steroid injection for inferior heel pain: a randomised controlled trial

3 Centre for Public Health, Queens’ University Belfast, Belfast, UK 4 Department of Rheumatology, Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, UK 5 Department of Rheumatology, Chapel Allerton Hospital, ...
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Head-to-head, randomised, crossover study of oral versus subcutaneous methotrexate in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: drug-exposure limitations of oral methotrexate at ...

2 Clinical Development, Antares Pharma Inc, Ewing, New Jersey, USA 3 Medical Department, Antares Pharma Inc, Ewing, New Jersey, USA Objective To compare the relative bioavailability, safety and ...
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Occurrence and correlates of fatigue in psoriatic arthritis

Psoriatic Arthritis Program, Centre for Prognosis Studies in The Rheumatic Diseases, University Health Network, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence to Dr D D Gladman, ...
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The development of Assessment of SpondyloArthritis international Society classification criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (part I): classification of paper patients by ...

Rheumatology, Med Klinik I, Charité, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany ...