Pain and functional capacity in female fibromyalgia patients

Pain Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1667-1675

  Carbonell Baeza, Ana ^a,c,d   Aparicio, Virginia A ^a,b   Sjöström, Michael ^d   Ruiz, Jonatan R ^a,d   Delgado Fernández, Manuel ^a  

^a Department of Physical Education and Sport   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Body composition; Fibromyalgia; Functional capacity; Tender point

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; SCRATCHING; SITTING; STANDING; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WALKING;

EID: 81855194460     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2011.01239.x     Document Type: Article

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