Caring for fibromyalgia in women and the importance of sport

Abstract

Background: fibromyalgia is often aggravated by exertion, fatigue, humidity, climate change and even some workplace factors that has to do with posture during work.

Objective: to determine whether the sport is a viable strategy to reduce the clinical manifestations of fibromyalgia.

Methodology: a systematic review was conducted using as keywords fibromyalgia, sport, care and women, in the last ten years

Results: there is evidence of the positive effect of sports, aerobic exercise in manifestations of fibromyalgia, besides being a positive effect on mood related to the incidence of fibromyalgia.

Conclusions: playing sports is a viable strategy to reduce the clinical manifestations of fibromyalgia.