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- Title
A influência da Fisioterapia na redução da intensidade da dor e no efeito global percebido de pacientes com dores musculoesqueléticas.
- Authors
de Oliveira Chaves, Aline; Santos de Almeida, Renato; Amaral Corrêa, Leticia; Jandre dos Reis, Felipe José; Mello Meziat-Filho, Ney Armando; Calazans Nogueira, Leandro Alberto
- Abstract
The clinical improvement of the patient with musculoskeletal pain (MP) should be monitored together with the perception of the patient about the treatment effect, despite the lack of information on this subject. Objective: To analyze the influence of physiotherapeutic treatment on the pain reduction and global perceived effect in patients with MP. Methods: A retrospective observational analytic study was performed in 61 patients with MP that answered a question about their pain intensity and another question about the global perceived effect of the physical therapy treatment. The pain intensity measured after 10 months of follow-up was compared to the initial values. Results: Participants were predominantly female (83.3%) adults (mean age 59.6 years old). The mean pain intensity at the initial evaluation was 6.4 (± 2.7), with a mean of pain time of 20.3 months. The mean pain intensity after telephone contact was 4.37 (± 3.9). The analysis of the global perceived effect evidenced improvement in most of the participants (16.7% completely recovered, 39.7% much improved, 26.7% slightly improved). Conclusion: Patients with MP showed pain reduction and improvement on the global perceived effect after a Physiotherapy treatment.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of musculoskeletal system diseases; SCIENTIFIC observation; PHYSICAL therapy; RESEARCH; PAIN management; PAIN measurement; TREATMENT effectiveness; RETROSPECTIVE studies
- Publication
Fisioterapia Brasil, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
1518-9740
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33233/fb.v20i2.2226