Physical activty and RA

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*Hi all. I am new to the group. I joined because of that study posted

about splints. Has anyone seen any other good articles about occupational

therapy?*

*What a large group this is - I have RA and osteoporosis so I guess I fit

right in

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*I did a study on physical activity and RA and this is a summary of the

results. I only pasted in the last paragraph

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*What is the take home message?*

In summary, women with arthritis who reported being successfully active

enough for health benefits expressed that the cause of their success was

more under their own control, more stable, and had more to do with

themselves (not others), compared to women who reported being less

successful at being active. The women who reported themselves as being

successful also had higher confidence to schedule physical activity into

their lives and had higher intentions to be active, although both groups had

fairly high intentions for activity. In the last month, the successful women

did more physical activity than the other group of women. The pain that the

successful and unsuccessful participants perceived was fairly similar with

the “successful” participants perceiving slightly less pain.

One take home message from this study is that differences existed between

women with arthritis who rated themselves as successful at meeting the

recommendations for physical activity compared to those women who rated

themselves as less successful. These differences are apparent in their

physical activity levels, and in a number of other, social psychological

factors. If we can help the less successful women change in these social

psychological factors, then it is more likely that they too will be active

at the recommended levels.

One particular focus should be on helping women identify a cause for their

activity that is more under their control, more stable, and has to do with

themselves and not others. Helping to change how people explain the cause of

their activity is called “attribution re-training”. We will be conducting

future studies on attribution retraining to figure out the best way to do

this.

Attribution retraining is important. Other research shows that individuals

who feel that the cause of their activity is indeed more under their

control, more stable, and has to do with themselves, also tend to have:

- more positive emotions, confidence to schedule in activity, higher

intentions to be active, and less negative emotions.

*Taken together, these changes lead to individuals being more active. *

There is an obvious need for more research in this area. We hope to build on

these research findings with future studies. Our overall goal is to apply

the knowledge gained in these studies to help women with arthritis cope with

their disease and achieve the health benefits of physical activity. This one

study gives us a much better understanding of some factors that may be

extremely important in helping women with arthritis be regularly active.

*Thank you to all of the participants involved in the 2009 Physical Activity

in Women with Arthritis Survey. *

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Annette - Toronto

Growing older is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

[Guest guest]

I've found I'm " regularly active " taking all the medications so I can be

regularly active.

Stan

Seattle, Rain.

Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:26:02 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific

Subject: [ ] Physical activty and RA

*Hi all.  I am new to the group.  I joined because of that study posted

about splints.  Has anyone seen any other good articles about occupational

therapy?*

*What a large group this is - I have RA and osteoporosis so I guess I fit

right in

*

*I did a study on physical activity and RA and this is a summary of the

results.  I only pasted in the last paragraph

*

*

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2 & ik=b266f69bcb & view=att & th=12315a6c097a761b & at\

tid=0.1 & disp=vah & zw<?ui=2 & ik=b266f69bcb & view=att & th=12315a6c097a761b & attid=0.1 & d\

isp=vah & zw>