NCT01592916

Acute Effects of Exercise in Women With Fibromyalgia (FM)

Acute Effects of Exercise in Women With FM

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 55 (actual)
• Sponsor: Göteborg University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators previous studies of aerobic exercise in women with fibromyalgia (FM) have shown that exercise improves body functions and/or symptom severity in most patients, but not in all. About a third of patients with FM have been shown to have low levels of IGF-1. The purpose of this project is to study individual and biological factors that interact with outcomes of short-term (acute) exercise in FM. Method. A controlled prospective exercise study. Thirty women with FM and 30 healthy age-matched women, aged 20-50 years, will be recruited to the study. Two 15-minute ergometer bicycle exercise tests will be conducted in feasting patients, separated by one month. The first exercise test is at a low and the second at a high intensity. Measurements comprise blood test, pain rating and pain threshold, conducted before and after the test. The levels of IGF-1, IL-6 and IL-8 will be measured, and the changes in them will be related to health status and pain.

Conditions

• Fibromyalgia

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-05-10
• Primary completion: 2012-11-23
• Completion: 2012-11-23
• First posted: 2012-05-07
• Last updated: 2018-02-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden