Cycling or walking? Comparing the Six-minute walk with the cycle ergometer test in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Advances in Physiotherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 203-208

  Karlsson, Annika ^a   Opava, Christina H ^b  

^a CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Exercise test; Impairment; Multiple regression; Oxygen uptake

Indexed keywords

DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT SWELLING; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANGE OF MOTION; RATING SCALE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WALKING;

EID: 57249084144     PISSN: 14038196     EISSN: 16511948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14038190802105870     Document Type: Article

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