Warm Swimming Pool Dip Cures Fibromyalgia

The team including Narcis Gusi of the Faculty of Sports Sciences, at the University of Extremadura, in Caceres, Spain and Pablo Tomas-Carus of the Department of Sport and Health at the University of Evora, Portugal, conducted a randomized trial on 33 female fibromyalgia patients.

Out of these 33, 17 were asked to take part in supervised training exercises in warm water for an hour three times a week over a period of 8 months while the remaining did no aquatic training.

The findings revealed that the long-term aquatic exercise program was effective in reducing the pain and improved the health-related quality of life of the participants.

"The addition of an aquatic exercise programme to the usual care for fibromyalgia in women is cost-effective in terms of both health care costs and societal costs. Appropriate aquatic exercise is a good health investment," said the researchers.

Source-ANI
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