ArticleJournal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine
Effect of electro-acupuncture, massage, mud, and sauna therapies in patient with rheumatoid arthritis.
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- Physical activity of older patients with rheumatoid arthritis.Rheumatology international · 2025Review
- Sauna therapy in rheumatic diseases: mechanisms, potential benefits, and cautions.Rheumatology international · 2025Review
- An analysis of Treg/Th17 cells imbalance associated microRNA networks regulated by moxibustion therapy on Zusanli (ST36) and Shenshu (BL23) in mice with collagen induced arthritis.American journal of translational research · 2019Article
- Clinical Efficacy of Acupuncture on Rheumatoid Arthritis and Associated Mechanisms: A Systemic Review.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2018Review
- Integrated Yoga and Naturopathy module in management of Metabolic Syndrome: A case report.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicineArticle
- Naturopathy and Yoga for improving quality of life in Pemphigus vulgaris and managing co-morbid type 2 diabetes: A case report.Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicineArticle
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Abstract
A 48-year-old married woman diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in 2007, came to our hospital in July 2014 with the complaint of severe pain and swelling over multiple joints, especially over small joints, which was associated with stiffness (more in morning), deformities of fingers and toes, with disturbed sleep and poor quality of life (QOL) for the past 7 years. She received a combination of electro acupuncture (14 sessions), massage (18 sessions), mud (18 sessions), and sauna (3 sessions) (EMMS) therapies for 30-min, 45-min, 30-min, and 15-min per session, respectively for 3 weeks. During and postintervention assessment showed reduction in visual analog scale score for pain, Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales and the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scores. It also showed an increase in the scores of 10-Meter Walk Test, isometric hand-grip test, and short form-36 version-2 health survey. This result suggest that, the EMMS therapy might be considered as an effective treatments in reducing pain, depression, anxiety, and stress with improvement in physical functions, quality of sleep and QOL in patient with RA. EMMS therapies were tolerated and no side effects were reported by the patient. Though the results are encouraging, further studies are required with larger sample size and advanced inflammatory markers.
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