NCT02516761

Effect of Low-impact Aerobic Exercise and Music Therapy in Fibromyalgia

Effect of Low-impact Aerobic Exercise Combined With Music Therapy in Patients With Fibromyalgia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 26 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Valencia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 30 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The idea of this study is the combination of these two techniques (low-impact aerobic exercise through functional movements and music therapy) that have proven to be effective separately. The main objective of this study is to test this combination to reduce widespread pain in fibromyalgia patients, improve their balance, influence on decreasing levels of depression and improve quality of life.

Detailed description

Material and methods Patients The sample includes volunteer subjects diagnosed with fibromyalgia from the Valencian Association of People Affected by Fibromyalgia that were submitted to participate in the study. Study design It is a quasi-experimental, longitudinal, prospective, controlled, randomized, single-blinded research. The sample was divided into 3 groups. Patients signed informed consent and then the randomization of subjects to the different study groups was done through computer software by an external assistant who was blinded to the study objectives. The study was conducted in morning and afternoon sessions. All those patients who belong to the experimental group 1 or 2 attend their sessions which last 60 minutes and are held 2 times a week every other day. The experimental group 1 attends classes in the morning, while the experimental group 2 attends them in the evenings. The control group only comes to the evaluation sessions without doing any particular activity. The subjects are evaluated in two stages, at baseline and after completion of the study. Intervention Group 1 (G1): Low-impact aerobic exercise combined with music therapy. Intervention consists in working the muscles which are mostly affected by fibromyalgia through group exercises, which are dynamic, smooth and aim functionality. Group 2 (G2): Low-impact aerobic exercise. Then intervention is like the previous group but with the difference that physical activity is not performed to the rhythm of chosen melodic music. Therefore, exercises are done with general chill-out music throughout the session, without adaptation of the exercise to the music. Control group (CG): With this group no intervention is done, but they are assessed like the other groups. Evaluation: Depression, by Beck Depression Inventory, General discomfort, using the Faces Pain Scale, Balance, evaluated by the Berg Scale.

Conditions

• Fibromyalgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Low-impact aerobic exercise combined with music therapy	Intervention consists in working the muscles which are mostly affected by fibromyalgia through group exercises, which are dynamic, smooth and aim functionality. Each session consists of 60 minutes with 3 parts: initial warming up time, main part through games, group dynamics and pure aerobic workout, and final cool down with stretching. This exercise is done to the rhythm of melodic music, adapted to the tastes of the participants and also adapted on the way to perform the exercise. For this, they were shown a list of 100 music compositions from which participants choose a minimum of 20 preferences. All exercises are performed with proper postural control both dissociated and global and within a framework of therapeutic proprioceptive gymnastics.
OTHER	Low-impact aerobic exercise	Low-impact aerobic exercise. Then intervention is like the previous group but with the difference that physical activity is not performed to the rhythm of chosen melodic music. Therefore, exercises are done with general chill-out music throughout the session, without adaptation of the exercise to the music.
OTHER	Control group	With this group no intervention is done, but they are assessed like the other groups.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2016-03-01
• First posted: 2015-08-06
• Last updated: 2016-03-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain