Resistance exercise training improves heart rate variability in women with fibromyalgia

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-54

  Figueroa, Arturo ^a   Kingsley, J Derek ^a   Mcmillan, Victor ^b   Panton, Lynn B ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b McIntosh Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic function; Baroreflex; Muscle strength; Parasympathetic; Sympathetic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEART MUSCLE TENSION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KINESIOTHERAPY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349061127     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-097X.2007.00776.x     Document Type: Article

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