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Can Exercise Affect the Pain Characteristics in Patients with Fibromyalgia? A Randomized Controlled Trial
Exercise is often recommended for fibromyalgia. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible influence and change in the pain characteristics of fibromyalgia patients when breathing exercises were added to their exercise program. A total of 106 patients were included and randomly divided in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553951 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122426 |
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author | Vrouva, Sotiria Sopidou, Varvara Koutsioumpa, Evangelia Chanopoulos, Konstantinos Nikolopoulou, Alexandra Papatsimpas, Vasileios Koumantakis, George A. |
author_facet | Vrouva, Sotiria Sopidou, Varvara Koutsioumpa, Evangelia Chanopoulos, Konstantinos Nikolopoulou, Alexandra Papatsimpas, Vasileios Koumantakis, George A. |
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description | Exercise is often recommended for fibromyalgia. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible influence and change in the pain characteristics of fibromyalgia patients when breathing exercises were added to their exercise program. A total of 106 patients were included and randomly divided into two groups. Τhe first group of patients followed a program of active exercises up to the limits of pain, lasting 30 min with a repetition of two times a week. Patients of the second group followed the same program with the addition of diaphragmatic breaths when they reached the pain limit. The patients completed three questionnaires: the Fibromyalgia Rapid Screening Tool (FiRST), the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), and the Pain Quality Assessment Scale (PQAS)—once at the beginning, once again after three weeks of exercise, and again 3 months since the beginning of the program. Independent t-tests for the mean total change scores in pain scales demonstrated that for the second group there was a greater improvement in all pain scales, except for the PQAS Deep Pain subscale (p = 0.38). In conclusion, both groups showed significant improvement in all characteristics of the pain scales; however, the improvement of the second group was significantly higher. |
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spelling | pubmed-97784322022-12-23 Can Exercise Affect the Pain Characteristics in Patients with Fibromyalgia? A Randomized Controlled Trial Vrouva, Sotiria Sopidou, Varvara Koutsioumpa, Evangelia Chanopoulos, Konstantinos Nikolopoulou, Alexandra Papatsimpas, Vasileios Koumantakis, George A. Healthcare (Basel) Article Exercise is often recommended for fibromyalgia. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible influence and change in the pain characteristics of fibromyalgia patients when breathing exercises were added to their exercise program. A total of 106 patients were included and randomly divided into two groups. Τhe first group of patients followed a program of active exercises up to the limits of pain, lasting 30 min with a repetition of two times a week. Patients of the second group followed the same program with the addition of diaphragmatic breaths when they reached the pain limit. The patients completed three questionnaires: the Fibromyalgia Rapid Screening Tool (FiRST), the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), and the Pain Quality Assessment Scale (PQAS)—once at the beginning, once again after three weeks of exercise, and again 3 months since the beginning of the program. Independent t-tests for the mean total change scores in pain scales demonstrated that for the second group there was a greater improvement in all pain scales, except for the PQAS Deep Pain subscale (p = 0.38). In conclusion, both groups showed significant improvement in all characteristics of the pain scales; however, the improvement of the second group was significantly higher. MDPI 2022-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9778432/ /pubmed/36553951 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122426 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Vrouva, Sotiria Sopidou, Varvara Koutsioumpa, Evangelia Chanopoulos, Konstantinos Nikolopoulou, Alexandra Papatsimpas, Vasileios Koumantakis, George A. Can Exercise Affect the Pain Characteristics in Patients with Fibromyalgia? A Randomized Controlled Trial |
title | Can Exercise Affect the Pain Characteristics in Patients with Fibromyalgia? A Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_full | Can Exercise Affect the Pain Characteristics in Patients with Fibromyalgia? A Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_fullStr | Can Exercise Affect the Pain Characteristics in Patients with Fibromyalgia? A Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Can Exercise Affect the Pain Characteristics in Patients with Fibromyalgia? A Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_short | Can Exercise Affect the Pain Characteristics in Patients with Fibromyalgia? A Randomized Controlled Trial |
title_sort | can exercise affect the pain characteristics in patients with fibromyalgia? a randomized controlled trial |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9778432/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36553951 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10122426 |
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