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Swimming Pool Exercises Help Fibromyalgia Patients

February 25, 2008

New research has shown that swimming pool exercises in a warm pool can greatly help patients who are suffering from fibromyalgiaWashington (dbTechno) - New research has shown that swimming pool exercises in a warm pool can greatly help patients who are suffering from fibromyalgia.

This particular disease, fibromyalgia, is most common in women and causes a great deal of pain in your muscles. It also causes quite a bit of fatigue.

The study done by Narcis Gusi at the University of Extremadura in Caceres, Spain, as well as Pablo Tomas-Carus of the University of Evora, Portugal, looked at patients of fibromyalgia.

They took a group of 33 women who were suffering from fibromyalgia.

They had 17 of the women take part in swimming pool exercises in a warm pool three times a week for 8 months.

The second group did no swimmping pool exercises.

What they found was that those who took part in the swimming pool exercises had a much higher quality of life at the end of the 8 months, with far less pain.

Once the patients stop the program though they found that the pain does return.

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