[Drug treatment of soft tissue rheumatoid complaints. Oral administration of a non-steroidal antirheumatic drug with a short half-life].

In a clinical controlled study involving more than 100 patients with nonarticular rheumatism, the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent Ibuprofen Klinge 600 proved clinically effective. The test parameters were subjective pain considered separately as pain at rest, pain on movement, and tenderness, and the time to appearance of fatigue. All three categories of pain were ameliorated by the treatment, the time interval to appearance of fatigue doubling or tripling during the course of 3 weeks of treatment. This therapeutic success was coupled with good toleration of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.