Use of Whole Body Vibration in Patients With Fibromyalgia

University of the Balearic Islands

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fibromyalgia

Treatments: Device: Whole body vibration platform

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03782181

IB 2586/15 PI

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of a 3-month program consisted of the use of whole body vibration (WBV) in patients with fibromyalgia in order to determine whether this intervention would be effective to short and medium-term improvement of symptoms in these patients.

Full description

This was a single blind randomized controlled trial. Forty patients of FM group were assigned randomly to 2 study groups: 20 patients will be part of the experimental group (EG) that will perform a neuromuscular treatment using the vertical whole body vibration platform and another 20 will constitute the control group (CG). All these subjects will sign the corresponding informed consent for their participation in the study, according to the ethical criteria established in the Helsinki Declaration. The study took place between January and Juny 2019. Two groups of variables were analyzed in the present study three times: before, after and follow-up after three months of the intervention.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with FM were included in the study if they fulfilled the 1990 classification criteria of the American College of Rheumatology for fibromyalgia.
• Pain-free volunteers were included if they did not present pain symptoms or some type of treatment in any part of the body during the previous 12 months.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants were excluded from the study if they had not signed the informed consent or if they reported any other musculoskeletal disorder rather than patients with FM, any neurological disorder or had previous spinal fusion surgery or spinal cord stimulation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Whole body vibration plat

Active Comparator group

Description:

An arm type in which a group of patients with fibromyalgia receives an intervention based on the use of a whole body vibration platform, considered to be effective by clinical evidence.

Treatment:

Device: Whole body vibration platform

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention arm