Hand osteoarthritis - Nonpharmacological and pharmacological treatments

Nature Reviews Rheumatology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 242-251

  Kloppenburg, Margreet ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADALIMUMAB; BETAMETHASONE ACETATE PLUS BETAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; CAPSAICIN; CHONDROITIN 4 SULFATE; CHONDROITIN 6 SULFATE; CHONDROITIN SULFATE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; DICLOFENAC; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; ETANERCEPT; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PLACEBO; PREDNISOLONE; RECOMBINANT INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; RISEDRONIC ACID; STRONTIUM RANELATE; TRAMADOL; TRIAMCINOLONE HEXACETONIDE; ZOLEDRONIC ACID;

ANALGESIA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; APPLICATION SITE REACTION; ARTHRALGIA; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL SKIN REACTION; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONSTIPATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENTIATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HAND OSTEOARTHRITIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INJECTION SITE CONTUSION; INJECTION SITE DISCOMFORT; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE SWELLING; INTERVENTION STUDY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; NERVE DEGENERATION; OFF LABEL DRUG USE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SELF CARE; SKIN ATROPHY; SPLINT; SYNOVITIS; THUMB; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VOMITING;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; HAND; HUMANS; OSTEOARTHRITIS; SELF CARE; SPLINTS;

EID: 84898600344     PISSN: 17594790     EISSN: 17594804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrrheum.2013.214     Document Type: Review

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