Pain, Muscle Strength, and Peak Oxygen Uptake in Fibromyalgia Published by Dove Medical Press
(PRWEB) May 06, 2014 -- Journal of Pain Research has published the original research “Pain severity is associated with muscle strength and peak oxygen uptake in adults with fibromyalgia.”
As corresponding author, Dr Hooten says, “We know from our previous research that strength and aerobic exercise leads to reductions in pain among patients with fibromyalgia. We also know from our previous work that greater knee strength is predictive of higher pain thresholds in these patients.”
Dr Hooten continues, “The findings from the current study further extends this line of research and suggests that lower levels of knee strength and lower levels or aerobic fitness are predictive of greater pain in patients with fibromyalgia. Collectively, these research findings strongly suggest that strength and aerobic exercise have very favorable effects on pain in patients with fibromyalgia, and that strength and aerobic deconditioning could worsen fibromyalgia-related pain.”
As Dr Michael Schatman, Editor-in-Chief, explains, “Currently, the zeitgeist regarding the treatment of FMS is all about medication. Those of us who have worked in functional restoration have known, for many years, that exercise is the key to the management of the disorder. This study certainly provides empirical support for what wise clinicians have understood for years.”
Journal of Pain Research is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, online journal that welcomes laboratory and clinical findings in the fields of pain research and the prevention and management of pain. Original research, reviews, symposium reports, hypothesis formation and commentaries are all considered for publication.
Dove Medical Press Ltd is a privately held company specializing in the publication of Open Access peer-reviewed journals across the broad spectrum of science, technology and especially medicine.
Angela Jones, Dove Medical Press, +649 443 3060 Ext: 207, [email protected]
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