Exercise as an anti-inflammatory management for patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: a randomised

Dr Matthew Roberts is a researcher based at the National Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine, Loughborough University, and part of the Leicester Biomedical Research Centre. His research investigates the interaction between obesity, ethnicity, physical activity, inflammation, immune function, and chronic disease.

His PhD studies investigated the impact of exercise on cardiovascular disease risk and blood vessel function in people of different ethnicities.

Recently, Matthew has been involved in a clinical study investigating the effect of exercise on inflammation and disease burden in people with Axial Spondyloarthritis; a chronic arthritic disease affecting people at a young age. The preliminary findings of the study won the annual scientific prize in the ‘basic science’ category from the British Society for Spondyloarthritis.

Matthew is active in research having been involved in 10 peer-reviewed journal articles since 2020. He has also been an invited reviewer for Obesity (2023 & 2022), Therapeutic Advances in Musculoskeletal Disease (2023), Journal of Sport Sciences (2023), International Journal of Obesity (2023 & 2022 & 2021), American Journal of Preventive Medicine (2022), and Exercise Immunology Reviews (2021).

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