A New Rehabilitation Tool in Fibromyalgia

A New Rehabilitation Tool in Fibromyalgia: Efficacy of Perceptive Rehabilitation Versus Group Exercises on Pain and Function: a Clinical Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT)

The aim of the investigators study was to measure reductions in chronic pain in female patients with Fibromylgia comparing individual proprioceptive rehabilitation treatments with perceptual surfaces to a group exercises rehabilitation. Fibromyalgia is a generalized chronic pain condition that is usually accompanied by fatigue, sleep disturbance and psychological and cognitive alterations.

Inclusion Criteria:

• fibromyalgia diagnosed according to the criteria proposed by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR 1990 and 2010)
• Subjects aged between 18 and 60 years
• visual analog scale (VAS) for pain > 5

Exclusion Criteria:

• presence of concomitant autoimmune diseases
• psychiatric disorders
• other causes of chronic pain
• other diseases that prevented physical loading
• severe scoliosis or kyphoscoliosis
• surgery of the spine
• vertebral fractures
• sciatic pain
• tumors
• enrolled in another type of physical therapy program
• myocardial infarction
• lower extremity arterial disease
• major neurological problems
• diabetes
• gastrointestinal disease
• chronic respiratory disease
• kidney disease
• poor vision