Edith Elgueta Cancino, PhD

CONTACT

Oscar Nuñez Dias, Msc

CONTACT

Lead Sponsor

Universidad Nacional Andres Bello

Age

18 - 65 years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

No

•Women with a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia by a physician according to the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2016
•A stable medical treatment for symptoms for at least 4 weeks before participation (stable doses of medication)
•Reported pain equal to or higher than 40 mm on the visual analogue scale (moderate or severe pain) for more than 3 months
•Body mass index (BMI) between 18.5 and 39.9 kg m-2,
•Controlled high blood pressure.

•Isolated inflammatory joint, cancer, infectious, traumatic, localised neuropathic or degenerative joint pain.
•Intense headache, cerebral surgery, seizure/epilepsy, cardiovascular, lung, metabolic (II diabetes mellitus), retinopathy or neurological diseases (i.e. stroke and traumatic brain injury antecedents),
•Severe psychiatric disorders, major depression
•Substance abuse.
•Currently pregnant/breastfeeding,
•Under physical therapy treatment or have participated in a designed sports or exercise training in systematic programs in the last 3 months.
•Unable to speak or read Spanish fluently (inability to understand the pain scale and cooperate in testing)