Background Owing to the extension of life expectancy and advances in medication, the number of elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is increasing. Exercise therapy has been shown to be effective in patients with RA. However, as the current evidence includes patients ranging from young to elderly, there is a lack of evidence specifically focusing solely on elderly patients. In this study, we aimed to review the evidence for the effects of exercise therapy on elderly patients with RA.
Aoyagi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.