Abstracts tagged "activities of daily living (ADL) and myositis"

Abstract Number: 336 • 2018 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Physical Activity Monitors: New Tool to Assess Improvement in Myositis
Rohit Aggarwal¹, Chester V. Oddis², Siamak Moghadam-Kia³, Diane Koontz⁴, Nicole Marie Neiman³ and Bonny Rockette-Wagner⁵, ¹Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ²Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, Unviersity of Pittsburgh/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, ³Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁴Internal Medicine Division of Rheumatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, ⁵University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Background/Purpose: Physical activity monitors (PAM) are increasing being used to objectively quantify free-living movement in clinical research, especially musculoskeletal diseases. Given that patients with idiopathic…