Non pharmacological treatments in fibromyalgia

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Fibromyalgia is a complex syndrome associated with significant impairment in quality of life and function and with substantial financial costs. Once the diagnosis is made, providers should aim to increase patients' function and minimize pain. Fibromyalgia patients frequently use alternative therapies, strongly indicating both their dissatisfaction with and the substantial ineffectiveness of traditional medical therapy, especially pharmacological treatments. At present, pharmacological treatments for fibromyalgia have a rather discouraging cost/benefit ratio in terms of poor symptom control and high incidence of side effects. The interdisciplinary treatment programs have been shown to improve subjective pain with greater success than monotherapy. Physical therapies, rehabilitation and alternative therapies are generally perceived to be more "natural," to have fewer adverse effects, and in some way, to be more effective. In this review, physical exercise and multimodal cognitive behavioural therapy are presented as the more accepted and beneficial forms of nonpharmacological therapy.

Source: Reumatismo

DOI: 10.4081/reumatismo.2008.1s.59

Institutions: Michigan Medicine, University of Padua, Istituto Oncologico Veneto, Luigi Sacco Hospital, Azienda Ospedaliera G.Rummo, St. Eugenio Hospital, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale degli Spedali Civili di Brescia, University of Brescia, University of Turin, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Soroka Medical Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of L'Aquila, University of Pisa, University of Siena, Marche Polytechnic University

Language: Italian

Topic: Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Research

Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W2028622907