Autonomic nervous system profile in fibromyalgia patients and its modulation by exercise: A mini review

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 83-91

  Kulshreshtha, Poorvi ^a   Deepak, Kishore K ^b  

^a KIIT UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Adrenergic receptors; Autonomic nervous system; Exercise; Fibromyalgia; Ischemia; Pain

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHRONIC PAIN; COLD PRESSOR TEST; COMORBIDITY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYSAUTONOMIA; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; EXERCISE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBROMYALGIA; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; IMMOBILIZATION; ISCHEMIA; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; MICROCIRCULATION; MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SYMPATHETIC NERVE ACTIVITY; NOCICEPTION; ORTHOSTATIC STRESS; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PERFUSION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX ARC; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SHEAR STRESS; SHORT SURVEY; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DECONDITIONING; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; EXERCISE THERAPY; FIBROMYALGIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 84873448073     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cpf.12000     Document Type: Short Survey

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