Eficacia del qigong vs. fisoterapia para mejorar la calidad de vida de pacientes con fibromialgia

  1. Mejías Gil, Abel
Supervised by:
  1. María Victoria González López-Arza Director
  2. Juan Rodríguez Mansilla Director

Defence university: Universidad de Extremadura

Fecha de defensa: 13 November 2013

Committee:
  1. Raquel Valero Alcaide Chair
  2. Carmen Sánchez Sánchez Secretary
  3. Guillermo Téllez de Peralta Committee member
  4. María Esperanza Montes Doncel Committee member
  5. José Ignacio Calvo Arenillas Committee member

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 351878 DIALNET

Abstract

Clinical trial with 141 women diagnosed with fibromyalgia prior approval by the Ethics Committee of the University of Extremadura, evaluating the effectiveness of physical therapy and Qi Gong in improving the quality of life of these patients for 4 weeks. The sample was randomly distributed in three groups: group control, to not be any practiced experimental treatment, and two groups of intervention: physical therapy and another one of Qi Gong. The results were favorable for intervention groups against the control group in improving balance (p = 0.044); balance muscle (p ? 0.05) values spirometric (p ? 0.05) and quality of life patient (p = 0.007). We guarantee our results to say that the physiotherapy and the QiGong are two techniques effective for the improvement of the symptoms of patients with fibromyalgia.