Functional Assessment of the Patient With Fibromyalgia and Its Relation to Health: Fibromyalgia and Sarcopenia
Functional Assessment of the Patient With Fibromyalgia and Its Relation to Health: Fibromyalgia and Sarcopenia
Fibromyalgia is a chronic syndrome that causes fatigue, sleep disorders and generalized chronic pain in different parts of the body. This pathology is more prevalent in women and is generally not attributed to any specific cause.
This observational study aims to describe some important and health-related factors in patients with fibromyalgia.
Participants will have to fill out questionnaires related to sleep, anxiety, impact of the disease and sarcopenia index, and will then take tests related to grip strength for the upper limbs and dynamometry in the lower limbs. We will also employ the use of ultrasound to evaluate architectural measurements. Last but not least, we cannot forget the pain measurements that are so necessary in this study population.
Through the present research study we intend to analyze not only the health status of our sample but also to correlate the parameters analyzed with factors related to sarcopenia.
Through the data collection that will be carried out we can analyze variables as essential as pain, anxiety and depression, impact of the disease, agility, strength, anthropometric measurements, sleep and muscular architectural measurements by means of ultrasound in which we can analyze the fatty infiltration of structures such as the vastus lateralis, rectus anterior and vastus medius that allow us to obtain data that can define the characteristics of patients with fibromyalgia.
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