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| Pinto,Nelson de Souza; Monteiro,Milena de Oliveira Bravo; Paiva,Dulciane Nunes; Santos-Filho,Sebastião David; Misssailidis,Sotiris; Thompson,Diane; Cabezuelo,Pedro Marín; Bernardo-Filho,Mario. |
| Among nonpharmacological strategy to manage fibromyalgia, exercise (aerobic) has shown efficacy. Whole-body vibration (WBV) exercise has been proposed as a potential clinical intervention. WBV would induce increase in growth hormone (GH). An impairment of the hypothalamic-pituitary-GH-Insulin Growth Factor-1(IGF-1) axis has been implicated in the pathophysiology of fibromyalgia. This article aims to review the studies on exploring the relationship between WBV and fibromyalgia. Literature searches were performed in the PubMed database on 04/03/2010 using terms related to "pain", "whole body vibration" and "fibromyalgia". An important number of publications were identified with the term "pain" and in comparison, only a small number of articles were found... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Fibromyalgia; Whole body vibration; PubMed. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132012000100007 |
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