Effects of hydrotherapy and pain therapeutic education on quality of life and pain in women with fibromyalgia

• Grant number: 17/11521-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2017
• End date: October 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy
• Principal Investigator: Mariana Arias Avila Vera
• Grantee: Breno Perpétuo Lourenço
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde (CCBS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic rheumatic disease of uncertain etiology, known as to cause great impact on one's quality of life and which has been related to central sensitization. This study aims to evaluate the effects of Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) with hydrotherapy in comparison with hydrotherapy alone in pain and quality of life of women with fibromyalgia. For this purpose, 28 women diagnosed with FM will be divided into two groups for each of the treatments. They will all be assessed for Pressure Pain Threshold and the Medical Outcomes Study 36 - Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), together with Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ), during, immediately after and 12 weeks after finishing treatment. Data obtained will be recorded with an Excel sheet and analyzed with the Statistica Software. Data will be verified for normality by Shapiro-Wilk' test. For intragroup comparisons a Student t test will be used in parametric data and Wilcoxon test in nonparametric ones, while ANOVA test will be used in comparisons between groups. For all of them, a significance level ± < 0.05 will be considered. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE SOUSA, ANA PAULA; ALMEIDA, LUCAS ARAUJO; LOURENCO, BRENO PERPETUO; ALVARES, LUIZA DUARTE; AVILA, MARIANA ARIAS. Pain neuroscience education improves quality of life when added to aquatic exercise therapy for women with fibromyalgia: randomized controlled clinical trial. DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION, v. N/A, p. 11-pg., 2023-04-17. (17/11521-2, 19/01278-9, 17/03278-0)