Could Hands be a New Treatment to Fibromyalgia? A Pilot Study

摘要: Fibromyalgia is a chronic disease characterized by high-intensity pains with non-articular bases, affecting women and reaching between 3% 10% of the world population. significantly affects quality life patients, currently treated anti-inflammatory drugs analgesics that ease pain crises in general. Physiologically, it known patients fibromyalgia have greater amount, hands, neuroreceptors close to blood vessels when compared healthy patients. As search for non-invasive non-drug strategy treat based on knowledge analgesic action ultrasound laser as forms treatment physiotherapy, we sought evaluate this study response diagnosis (a prototype associates both techniques simultaneously), using two fronts: application methods tender point located trapezius muscle, or palms hands The evaluation was Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) protocols. results showed more effective three used, significant improvement VAS ultralaser treatment. In addition, FIQ VAS, patients' hand better all therapeutic applied. Thus, pilot allowed compare responses treatments conventional treatment, at applied showing new option improve use has fundamental role physiotherapeutic treatments.