Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy

Journal of Sleep Disorders & Therapy
Open Access

ISSN: 2167-0277

Ceferino Maestu Unturbe

Department of Bioelectromagnetism, Biomedical Technology Centre, Polytechnic University of Madrid (Madrid), Spain

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  • Research Article   

    Author(s): Jose María Gomez Arguelles*, Blanca Travesí Bugallo, Marcos Moreno-Zazo and Ceferino Maestu Unturbe

    The relationship between poor sleep quality and fibromyalgia is bidirectional; both processes constantly feed into each other. A treatment that improves both processes could be very useful. This study investigates the effectiveness of applying a very lowfield transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment on patients with fibromyalgia, and to know what changes are produced in the quality of sleep of the patients, compared to two control groups. Methods: a total of 27 patients with fibromyalgia were recruited, all of them adult women. The treatment of magnetic stimulation was applied to them, 4 or 6 weekly sessions, and the results were compared against a group of 52 patients with fibromyalgia to whom no treatment was applied, along with another group of 52 women with the same bio demographic characteristics, but without any pathology. The results were compared in terms of pain improvemen.. View More»

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