Neuromuscular efficiency in fibromyalgia is improved by hyperbaric oxygen therapy: looking inside muscles by means of surface electromyography
Academic Article
Publication Date:
2019
abstract:
Neuromuscular efficiency (NME) is impaired in fibromyalgia (FM). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment using 100% of oxygen through an oxygen mask. HBOT in FM induces changes in cortical excitability and a secondary reduction in pain and muscle fatigue. However, there are still no direct data indicating changes in muscle fatigue. The aim of this study was to assess whether the reduction in muscle fatigue so far attributed to a central effect of HBOT can be directly detected by means of non-invasive sEMG as a change in NME.
Iris type:
14.a.1 Articolo su rivista
Keywords:
Electromyography; Fatigue; Female; Fibromyalgia; Humans; Isometric Contraction; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Middle Aged; Muscle Contraction; Muscle, Skeletal; Neuromuscular Junction; Hyperbaric Oxygenation; Muscle Fatigue
List of contributors:
Casale, Roberto; Boccia, Gennaro; Symeonidou, Zaira; Atzeni, Fabiola; Batticciotto, Allberto; Salaffi, Fausto; Sarzi-Puttini, Piercarlo; Brustio, Paolo Riccardo; Rainoldi, Alberto
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