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Feasibility of the acute physical exercise following Cryotherapy protocol in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Case report by Daniele Peres in Journal of Clinical Case Reports Medical Images and Health Sciences Abstract Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients often present important cardiovascular mortality. An efficient strategy for the prevention of cardiovascular mortality is intermittent exercise (IE). Indeed, the use of cryotherapy can control pain and disease activity, which can be triggered by the IE. This project aimed to verify the protocol feasibility of the IE following local cryotherapy in patients with RA (PwRA). A 74-year-old woman PwRA was evaluated before and immediately after IE (30 minutes), after cryotherapy, and two consecutive days after performing the protocol. The disease activity (DAS 28 and echography), arterial stiffness (peripheral pulse wave velocity), hemodynamic parameters (blood pressure and heart rate), and tolerance (step test, Borg RPE and VAS) of the PwRA were mea...