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Health campaigns color each month, for example February is the purple month with an orange mix on awareness of lupus, alzheimer’s, fibromyalgia and leukemia diseases. The sports universe can help with one of these diseases. In that sense, you see exercise emerging as a treatment for fibromyalgia.
Understand first what is fibromyalgia, causes and symptoms
“Fibromyalgia is the current term for chronic widespread, non-inflammatory, non-autoimmune musculoskeletal pain lasting more than three months. These are patients with a hypersensitivity to pain, in which stimuli that would not normally cause pain in other people cause pain in these individuals who, associated with the complaint of widespread pain, may also present sleep disturbances, fatigue, as well as mood disturbances,” said Ana Cristina Boni, rheumatologist at the Cajuru and Marcelino Champagnat University Hospitals in an exclusive interview in Curitiba for the sports life.
“It can occur primarily, without any other associated conditions, in which laboratory and imaging tests usually do not show any changes, or secondary to other diseases, such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis,” adds the rheumatologist.
Exercise as a form of recovery
During the contact with the Sport Life report, Ana admitted that exercise is the ideal treatment along with cognitive behavioral therapy. If necessary, antidepressant and analgesic drugs are other alternatives. Detail that so far there isn’t an exercise indicated, i.e. what matters is moving.
“Improvement of the condition of fibromyalgia occurs only with the practice of physical exercises, being extremely studied and seen as the best treatment for the condition. There is no evidence that one exercise is better than the other, however it is noted that the activity aerobic exercises can improve sleep,” she comments.
“The ideal is to start gradually, with an increase in intensity and tolerated exercise time. It is suggested that the beginning is low-impact exercises, such as daily walking, stretching, swimming, hydrogym,” explains the rheumatologist.
Searches
The rheumatologist’s guidelines start from the Brazilian reality. After all, Apsen Farmacêutica showed its survey in the first half of 2021, the thesis of which is that fibromyalgia is the leading cause of chronic pain in Brazil. Most cases affect women and at least 3% of the population suffer from this disease.
There is a diagnosis in this paper that fibromyalgia is recurrent in women. 90% of confirmed cases of fibromyalgia belong to this portion of the population, which has become common in women between the ages of 25 and 50.
The WHO (World Health Organization) declared in April 2022 that Brazil is the most sedentary country in Latin America and ranks fifth in the world rankings.
Who is she?
Ana Cristina Boni graduated in Medicine at the UFPR (Federal University of Paraná) together with another cycle at the Université Toulouse-III-Paul-Sabatier, in France. And you specialized respectively in Internal Medicine at the PUC-PR (Pontifical Catholic University) and in Rheumatology at the UFPR.
Source: Terra
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