Abstracts tagged "functional status and physical activity"

Abstract Number: 1055 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Physical Activity Behavior in Men with Inflammatory Arthritis: A Cross-Sectional Register Based Study of Physical Activity Correlates, Motivators, Barriers and Preferences
Nanna Maria Hammer¹, Julie Midtgaard², Merete Lund Hetland^3,4, Niels Steen Krogh⁵ and Bente Appel Esbensen^1,6, ¹Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, The DANBIO registry and Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Glostrup, Denmark, ²Section of Social Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Public Health, Copenhagen, Denmark, ³Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁴Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research (COPECARE), Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet - Glostrup, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Glostrup, Denmark, ⁵Zitelab, Frederiksberg, Denmark, ⁶Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen Copenhagen, Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: While physical activity (PA) has been recommended as a part of the non-pharmacological management of inflammatory arthritis (IA), previous research within this area has…