Efficacy of Physiotherapy on the Health and Quality of Life of the Rheumatic Patient

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients older than 18 years * History of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) symptoms for less than 7 years * Had RA by American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria * ACR functional RA class I, II or III * Hemoglobin more than 8g/dL without evidence of active bleeding * Positive for rheumatoid factor (RF) or anti cyclic citrullinated protein * standard conventional medicine were allowed within the approved dosage regimen Exclusion Criteria: * connective tissue disease * any other alternative or complementary medicine with in last 3 months. * corticosteroid, disease modifying medicines * Poorly controlled diabetes, hypertension, hepatitis, cardiac disease, liver diseases, carcinoma, drug abuse