Background: Autonomic dysfunction has been observed in patients with fibromyalgia and is associated with symptoms and arrhythmia development in such patients.The investigators can analyze dysautonomia using heart rate recovery (HRR). Studies have reported that impaired HRR improves after exercise in fibromyalgia patients. Although previous theories have suggested that neural therapy benefits fibromyalgia patients by regulating autonomic dysfunction, there are no studies in the literature reporting that neural therapy improves autonomic dysfunction. Aims: The purpose of the present study was to compare whether neural therapy + exercise therapy provided more improvement in impaired HRR, cardiac parameters, and pain levels than exercise alone therapy in fibromyalgia patients with autonomic dysfunction. Methods: The study included sixty female patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia and impaired HRR, all over the age of 18. The investigators divided the patients into two groups: the exercise-alone group and the neural therapy + exercise group.
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Changes in impaired heart rate recovery
Timeframe: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 5 weeks