Pedal vs pound: study tests if cycling beats jogging for gout relief

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * meets the diagnostic criteria for gout of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) in 2015 * There have been two histories of gout attacks on either side of the ankle joint in the past six months * Ultrasound examination within the past 6 months indicated that either ankle joint had characteristic ultrasound manifestations (double-track sign, and/or hyperechoic aggregates, and/or tophi, and/or bone destruction) * Those who have had an interval of at least 4 weeks since the most recent acute gout attack * If the patient is undergoing uric acid-lowering drug treatment, the drug dosage must remain stable for more than 4 weeks. During the study period, the uric acid-lowering drug regimen or dosage will not be adjusted * For women who have the potential to become pregnant, a pregnancy test must be negative, they must not be in the lactation period, and it must be confirmed that they are receiving contraception approved by the researcher and agree to maintain this contraceptive measure throughout the study process * Those who were informed of this study and signed the informed consent form Exclusion Criteria: * Those who have received intra-articular injections of corticosteroids during an attack within the past three months; Those who have taken colchicine, NSAIDs, glucocorticoids in the past two weeks, or those who need to maintain anti-inflammatory drug treatment for a long time during the follow-up period * Joint trauma or other types of arthritis * There is a history of joint prosthesis or joint surgery * Those who have had acute gout attacks within 4 weeks * Patients with secondary gout caused by kidney diseases, blood disorders, or taking certain medications, radiotherapy and chemotherapy for tumors, etc * Those with severe and unstable cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (such as unstable angina pectoris, coronary angiogenesis, cerebral angiogenesis, transient ischemic attack, congestive heart failure, etc.) and other diseases that researchers have determined to be acute and difficult to control