title: Effect of electro-acupuncture, massage, mud, and sauna therapies in patient with rheumatoid arthritis.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Acupuncture, SDM College of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences, Ujire, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: Geetha B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Shetty
authors.affiliation: Department of Research and Development, S-VYASA University, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mooventhan
authors.affiliation: Department of Naturopathy and Yoga, SDM College of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences, Ujire, Karnataka, India.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Anagha
keywords: Electro-acupuncture; massage; mud therapy; rheumatoid arthritis; sauna therapy
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