The Effect of Sympathetic Dysfunction on Muscle Spindle in Fibromyalgia

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

This study aims to reveal whether there is an impairment in the sympathetic regulation of muscle spindle sensitivity in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS).

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital
• Treatments: Pregabalin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

For the fibromyalgia group

• Patients diagnosed with FMS based on the American college of rheumatology - 2016 criteria

• Between the ages of 20-50

• Being a woman

• Patients prescribed pregabalin for the treatment

For the Healthy Control group

• Between the ages of 20-50

• Being a woman

• Being healthy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Those with medical problems in the right upper and lower extremities (skin, neuromuscular, joint, vascular pathologies)

• Cases that cannot perform arithmetic operations

• Cold allergy

• Heart disease (arrhythmia, ischemic heart disease, heart failure)

• Hypertension

• Epilepsy