OBJECTIVES Fibromyalgia is a disease characterized by chronic, widespread pain. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment methods are used. The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of balneotherapy on treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome, compared with education alone. METHODS A total of 66 patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia syndrome were randomly separated into balneo...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of post-polio-related fatigue on quality of life. DESIGN Cross-sectional case control study. SUBJECTS Patients without additional health problems that may induce fatigue were selected from among 82 polio survivors. Twenty-six patients with post-polio syndrome and 10 without post-polio syndrome were included. Control group consisted of 30 healthy volunteers. ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the impact of guided meditation and music interventions on patient anxiety, pain, and fatigue during imaging-guided breast biopsy. METHODS After giving informed consent, 121 women needing percutaneous imaging-guided breast biopsy were randomized into three groups: (1) guided meditation; (2) music; (3) standard-care control group. During biopsy, the meditation and music gro...

OBJECTIVE The present study is a comparison of the effectiveness of amitriptyline and pregabalin on the symptoms of fibromyalgia patients. METHODS A total of 71 female patients aged ≥18 years were included in this study. The patients were divided into 2 groups. Pregabalin (n=36) or amitriptyline (n=35) treatment was initiated at daily oral dose of 450 mg and 25 mg, respectively for the indica...

INTRODUCTION Fatigue is a disruptive symptom that inhibits normal functional performance of COPD patients in daily activities. The availability of a short, simple, reliable and valid scale would improve assessment of the characteristics and influence of fatigue in COPD. METHODS At baseline, 2107 COPD patients from the ECLIPSE cohort completed the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Thera...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a home-based cognitive rehabilitation (CR) program based on the video game Dr Kawashima's Brain Training (DKBT; Nintendo, Japan), in improving attention, processing speed, and working memory of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS This was a randomized, wait-list control study. Patients with MS and failure in at least one between Stroop Tes...

background : the purposes of this study were to examine the impact of chemotherapy treatment on jordanian cancer patients’ fatigue and to correlate their fatigue with selected sociodemographic variables at the beginning of treatment and after four weeks of treatment. methods : this was a single group quasi-experimental correlational design study that enrolled 43 patients diagnosed with cancer w...