Performance of women with fibromyalgia in walking up stairs while carrying a load

Collado-Mateo, Daniel; Adsuar, José Carmelo; Olivares, Pedro R.; Domínguez‐Muñoz, Francisco Javier; Maestre-Cascales, Cristina; Gusi, Narcís

doi:10.7717/peerj.1656

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“…Participant had to climb as fast as possible 10-step stair. This test was previously used as a physical test in fibromyalgia patients [25–27] with excellent reliability (ICC = 0.972). [27]…”

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Impact of adding a cognitive task while performing physical fitness tests in women with fibromyalgia

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Fibromyalgia symptoms cause a significant reduction in the ability to perform daily life activities. These activities often require the ability to perform more than 1 task at the same time.The aim was to investigate how the addition of a cognitive task modifies the performance in physical fitness tests in fibromyalgia and healthy controls.A total of 61 women participated in this study, 31 of them diagnosed with fibromyalgia by a rheumatologist. They performed 3 physical fitness tests (arm curl, handgrip, and 10-steps stair tests) in 2 conditions:a) regular (single task [ST]) andb) while thinking in 3 words that were given before each test and had to be recalled and verbalized after the execution of each test (dual task).The dual task cost was calculated as the difference between the performances in the regular and dual-task (DT) conditions.Healthy controls obtained significantly better results than fibromyalgia in both, dual and single-task conditions. Women with fibromyalgia significantly decreased the performance in the 10-steps stair test when a cognitive task was added. Between-group differences in the dual-task costs (DTC) were not found.Women with fibromyalgia showed lower physical performance than healthy controls in both, single and dual task conditions. In addition, differences between single and dual task conditions were observed in the 10-steps stair test in women with fibromyalgia. This could be related with a reduction in the ability to perform daily life activities. However, results regarding DTC indicate that both groups may be similarly influenced by the addition of a secondary cognitive. Thus, further research with different difficulty levels of DT conditions is needed in fibromyalgia.

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“…[ 10 – 14 ] In 2 studies, women with FM had to climb 10 steps either empty handed or carrying a load. [ 12 , 13 ] In the first of these studies, the performance in the stair ascent was assessed to evaluate the effects of a training program aimed at proving that physical exercise prevents progressive loss of performance in this task. [ 13 ] The second focused on detecting differences in motor patterns between women with FM and healthy controls while using stairs.…”

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“…[ 13 ] The second focused on detecting differences in motor patterns between women with FM and healthy controls while using stairs. [ 12 ] Three other studies utilized a test involving stair ascent to compare the performance and/or response of FM patients and healthy controls to a training program. [ 10 , 11 , 14 ] All 3 studies concluded that patients with FM needed more time to complete the stair climbing task.…”

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Stair negotiation in women with fibromyalgia

Collado-Mateo

Domínguez‐Muñoz²,

Olivares³

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Walking up and down stairs is a common and important activity of daily living. Women with fibromyalgia often show a reduced ability to perform this task.The objective of this study was to evaluate the test–retest reliability of stair negotiation tasks and to assess the impact of fibromyalgia symptoms on the ability to negotiate stairs.Forty-two women with fibromyalgia participated in this descriptive correlational study. The relevance of the stair negotiation (both walking up and down) was evaluated by assessing its association with the revised version of the fibromyalgia impact questionnaire (FIQ-R) and other health-related variables. Test–retest reliability was also analyzed. The main outcome measures were time spent walking up and down stairs and impact of fibromyalgia, quality of life, number of falls, weight, and lower limb strength and endurance.The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) for stair descent was 0.929 whereas that for ascent was 0.972. The score in these tests correlated significantly with the total score for the FIQ-R and the score for many of dimensions and symptoms: that is, physical function, overall impact of fibromyalgia, pain, energy, stiffness, restorative sleep, tenderness, self-perceived balance problems, and sensitivity.Given the importance of the stair negotiation as activity of daily living and the high reliability, both stair ascent and descent tasks may be useful as outcome measures in studies on patients with fibromyalgia.

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“…Fourth, we considered the evaluation of pain in this study. Patients with pain symptoms are generally thought to experience different types of pain, such as spontaneous pain ( Nagakura et al, 2019 ; Tanei et al, 2020 ), pain during joint motion ( Avila et al, 2014 , 2017 ), pain on load ( Collado-Mateo et al, 2016 ), and noxious stimulus-evoked pain. The pain experienced by FM patients may comprise all the pain types mentioned above.…”

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Free gait in a shallow pool accelerates recovery after exercise in model mice with fibromyalgia

Nakata¹,

Doi²,

Uta³

et al. 2020

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This study aimed to determine the effect of pool gait exercise using fibromyalgia-induced model mice. The sensory threshold, locomotive behavior, electrocardiogram, and onset time after the gait test in shallow water using male C57BL/6J mice (weight, 30-35 g; n= 21) were investigated. To induce fibromyalgia in model mice, reserpine was injected intraperitoneally into wild-type mice once a day for 3 days. Subsequently, the fibromyalgia-induced model mice were randomly classified into two groups as follows: the control group (n= 11) and the pool gait group (n= 10). The mice in the pool gait group walked in the same cage containing shallow warm water 5 times per week. Both groups underwent sensory thresholds and video recordings to determine locomotive behaviors weekly. Further, both heart rate and video recordings for observation of a recovery after the gait test in shallow water were undertaken (control group; n= 5, pool gait group; n= 5). The pool gait did not affect sensory thresholds and locomotive behavior; however, in the pool gait group, both the recovery after the test, such as onset time and gait distance, were considerably better than those of the control group. Furthermore, changes in heart rate and heart rate irregularity after the test were more apparent in the control group than in the pool gait group. The free gait in a shallow pool accelerated recovery after exercise, unlike the sensory threshold.

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Performance of women with fibromyalgia in walking up stairs while carrying a load

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Impact of adding a cognitive task while performing physical fitness tests in women with fibromyalgia

Impact of adding a cognitive task while performing physical fitness tests in women with fibromyalgia

Stair negotiation in women with fibromyalgia

Free gait in a shallow pool accelerates recovery after exercise in model mice with fibromyalgia

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