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Training will begin after the first session, which includes a face-to-face assessment. On the first day, a PowerPoint presentation will introduce the patient about pain anatomy, physiology, factors affecting pain, and central and peripheral sensitization. The topic of pain will be introduced, and the patient will be informed about the process. Pain mechanisms will be reviewed using video explanations, visual aids, and animations, information will be provided on what physical activity is and its effects on pain, patients will be asked their opinions on exercise, suggestions for physical daily, living activities will be given such as increasing activity, using stairs, limiting screen time type of suggestions will be thought to the patient and the patient's wishes and goals will be questioned in the further sessions. Each session will last 30 minutes and 16 education sessions will be completed in total.",[13,14],"Other: Pain Neuroscience Education","Other: Structured Exercises",{"label":16,"type":10,"description":17,"interventionNames":18},"Vagal Nerve Stimulation + Structured Exercise","Will be applied with the non-invasive taVNS-Research (tVNS®) device, which is the only safe auricular vagus stimulation device approved by the Ministry of Health in Türkiye and is used in various diseases such as headache, epilepsy, and fibromyalgia. Electrodes will be placed on the left auricular cavum conchae using two carbon-impregnated silicone electrodes to reduce the risk of cardiac side effects. Vagal nerve stimulation will be administered twice a week for 8 weeks, with a total of 16 supervised sessions. During this period, the home exercise intervention that patients are asked to perform will continue. Following the initial evaluation, the exercises will be taught to the patient, and the first nerve stimulation session will be performed. Current intensity will be adjusted according to the patient tolerance-threshold value, and this value will be recorded for each session.",[19,14],"Other: Vagal Nerve Stimulation",{"label":21,"type":22,"description":23,"interventionNames":24},"Structured Exercise","ACTIVE_COMPARATOR","The Structured exercise intervention, specifically for individuals with RA and designed to target painful areas, will be implemented in the form of home exercises for all three groups, twice a week for 8 weeks. The exercise program will primarily consist of warm-up, basic exercise, and a cool-down period. Aerobic, strengthening, flexibility, breathing, and hand exercises will be planned based on EULAR recommendations. The warm-up period will begin with flexibility and range of motion exercises, followed by calisthenic and therapeutic endurance and strengthening exercises, and the session will ended with diaphragmatic breathing and hand exercises during the cool-down period. Additionally, walking activity will be recommended for at least two days per week.",[14],[26,31,35],{"type":6,"name":27,"description":28,"armGroupLabels":29,"otherNames":30},"Pain Neuroscience Education","Many sources in the literature draw attention to patient education as the first stage of treatment and the most common educational technique that focuses on the perception, mechanism and modulation of pain is known as Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE). Patients in this group will take educational sessions about the pain, facilitators of pain, the factors affecting the pain perception and how to deal with chronic pain in rheumatoid arthritis with the help of power point presentations, animation videos, pictures and drawings. Intervention will last for 8 weeks, 2 times per week, in total 16 sessions will be completed. Each session will last 30 minutes in average and at the same time, patients will be advised to perform the given home exercises for 2 times per week. Assessments will be performed before and after the intervention.",[9],null,{"type":6,"name":32,"description":33,"armGroupLabels":34,"otherNames":30},"Vagal Nerve Stimulation","Vagus nerve (cranial nerve X) is the longest and most widely distributed cranial nerve containing sensory, motor, and parasympathetic fibers. It plays an important role in the regulation of cardiovascular, respiratory, immune, endocrine, and autonomic systems, as well as homeostasis. Participants with rheumatoid arthritis will be taken into stimulation sessions for 2 times per week for continuous 8 weeks. Assessments will be performed before study and after the 16 sessions are completed. Since the literature has missing knowledge about the effects of Vagal nerve stimulation in rheumatoid arthritis, the results will highlight the effects on pain and inflammatory markers in this population. Current will be given from the left ear\u002Ftransauricular area to prevent the side effects in the sessions.",[16],{"type":6,"name":36,"description":37,"armGroupLabels":38,"otherNames":30},"Structured Exercises","Structured exercise planned in this study is based on the principles and suggestions of EULAR, by consisting warm-up, basic exercise and warm up sessions by combining different exercise types like aerobic, strengthening flexibility, breathing and definitely by including hand specific exercises. Participants in all three groups will be educated in the first session about the exercises to prevent wrong application and injuries. Afterwards, all groups will continue to their exercises at the home setting. An exercise diary will be asked from patients to control if they continue to their exercises regularly for 2 times for 8 weeks.",[9,21,16],[40],{"name":41,"affiliation":42,"role":43},"Simay AKDEMİR, MSc. 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Phd Candidate, Lecturer Physical Therapist",[74],{"name":75,"class":6},"Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa","100614017","pain-neuroscience-education-and-vagus-nerve-stimulation-on-recovery-in-individuals-with-rheumatoid-arthritis-100614017",false,"NCT07274124","Pain Neuroscience Education and Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Recovery in Individuals With Rheumatoid Arthritis","Comparison of the Effects of Pain Neuroscience Education and Vagus Nerve Stimulation on Recovery in Individuals With Rheumatoid Arthritis","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Individuals who were diagnosed with RA at least one year ago,\n* Ages of 18 and 65,\n* Have been experiencing pain for three months or more,\n* Score 24 or higher on the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), and can follow instructions will be included in the study.\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Individuals under 18 years of age,\n* Reporting acute pain or pain from injury,\n* Having a history of surgery within the last year,\n* Having a score of \\\u003C24 on the MMSE,\n* Having any of the cerebrovascular disease, cardiovascular disease, symptomatic coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, or uncontrolled hyper\u002Fhypotension,\n* History of vagotomy surgery, or having an implanted electrical\u002Fneurostimulator device will not be included in the study.","ALL","18 Years","65 Years",{"count":87,"type":88},36,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[91],"NA","In the context of this randomized controlled study, patients who are diagnosed with Rheumatoid arthritis in Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine Hospital, will be taken into a rehabilitation program by a qualified physiotherapist to improve their pain, pain perception, inflammatory markers and quality of life, with one of the pain neuroscience education, vagal nerve stimulation and traditional exercise interventions. The results of each intervention method will be analyzed and compared at the end of the 8 weeks study protocol.",[94,95],"Rheumatic Diseases","Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)",[97,98,99,100],"rheumatoid arthritis","pain neuroscience education","vagal nerve stimulation","exercise","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2025-11-27",{"date":104,"type":105},"2025-12-10","ACTUAL",{"date":107,"type":88},"2026-01",{"date":109,"type":88},"2027-07",{"name":5,"class":6},1]