Exercise Training in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Cryotherapy (RhumatEx)

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men and women >18 years old, < 80 years old
• Signature of informed consent for participation
• Affiliation to a social security scheme or French beneficiary of such a regime.
• confirmed rheumatoid arthritis and monitoring by the rheumatology department of the University Hospital of Besancon.
• If there is a corticosteroid therapy, it must be stable for at least 1 month and less than or equal to 10 mg of prednisone equivalent per day
• Clinical and biological activity will be moderate (ie not in remission and not severe based on Disease Activity Score 28 joints - DAS 28 - to be between 2 and 6
• Patients could be treated with DMARDs (Disease-Modifying Drugs).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient under guardianship, curatorship, under judicial protection, major incapable
• Patients whose body mass index (BMI) greater than 30,
• Pathology incompatible with the completion of a cycle ergometer exercise (heart, vascular, respiratory, orthopedic ...)
• Change in DAS28 greater than 1.2 in the previous 3 months Inclusion
• A patient with a DAS28 > 6
• about the cold: Raynaud's syndrome, cold known allergy, sickle cell anemia, cryoglobulinemia, uncontrolled hypertension
• Patient unable to follow protocol because of cognitive, psychiatric or language difficulties.
• Inability to follow protocol for causes related to health problems (unrelated Rheumatoid Arthritis) or socio-professional.