Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can diminish fibromyalgia syndrome - Prospective clinical trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Efrati, Shai ^a,b   Golan, Haim ^a,b   Bechor, Yair ^a   Faran, Yifat ^c   Daphna Tekoah, Shir ^c,d   Sekler, Gal ^b   Fishlev, Gregori ^a,b   Ablin, Jacob N ^b,e   Bergan, Jacob ^a,b   Volkov, Olga ^a,b   Friedman, Mony ^a,b   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^a,b,f   Buskila, Dan ^g  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c ASHKELON ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^d KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^f RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FIBROMYALGIA IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT FORM 36; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84959271759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127012     Document Type: Article

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