ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2013
In-Patient Treatment of Fibromyalgia: A Controlled Nonrandomized Comparison of Conventional Medicine versus Integrative Medicine including Fasting Therapy.
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- Efficacy of Nutritional Strategies on the Improvement of the Performance and Health of the Athlete: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Multidisciplinary rehabilitation treatments for patients with fibromyalgia: a systematic review.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2022Pooled it
- Dietary Patterns and Interventions to Alleviate Chronic Pain.Nutrients · 2020Pooled it
- Innate immune remodeling by short-term intensive fasting.Aging cell · 2021Trial
- Eight Days of Water-Only Fasting Promotes Favorable Changes in the Functioning of the Urogenital System of Middle-Aged Healthy Men.Nutrients · 2020Trial
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- Is fasting safe? A chart review of adverse events during medically supervised, water-only fasting.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2018Trial
- A Prospective Observational Study of a 2-Week Integrative Inpatient Therapy on Patients with Fibromyalgia Syndrome.Biomedicines · 2025Article
- [Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) : A retrospective study of changes in pain, psychometric variables, and analgesic consumption during inpatient interdisciplinary multimodal pain therapy (IMPT)].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2024Article
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- Health Benefits of Intermittent Fasting.Microbial physiology · 2024Review
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- Impact of supervised beego, a traditional Chinese water-only fasting, on thrombosis and haemostasis.BMJ nutrition, prevention & health · 2021Article
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- Elevated blood lactate in resting conditions correlate with post-exertional malaise severity in patients with Myalgic encephalomyelitis/Chronic fatigue syndrome.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Safety, health improvement and well-being during a 4 to 21-day fasting period in an observational study including 1422 subjects.PloS one · 2019Observational
- AMP-activated kinase and the endogenous endocannabinoid system might contribute to antinociceptive effects of prolonged moderate caloric restriction in mice.Molecular pain · 2017Article
- Differences in Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Treatment Programs for Fibromyalgia: A Mapping Review.Pain research & management · 2017Review
- Therapeutic Fasting as a Novel Approach to Mitigate Musculoskeletal Symptoms in Breast Cancer Patients undergoing Aromatase Inhibitor Therapy: A Feasibility Study Protocol.Integrative cancer therapiesArticle
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Abstract
Fibromyalgia poses a challenge for therapy. Recent guidelines suggest that fibromyalgia should be treated within a multidisciplinary therapy approach. No data are available that evaluated multimodal treatment strategies of Integrative Medicine (IM). We conducted a controlled, nonrandomized pilot study that compared two inpatient treatment strategies, an IM approach that included fasting therapy and a conventional rheumatology (CM) approach. IM used fasting cure and Mind-Body-Medicine as specific methods. Of 48 included consecutive patients, 28 were treated with IM, 20 with CM. Primary outcome was change in the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire (FIQ) score after the 2-week hospital stay. Secondary outcomes included scores of pain, depression, anxiety, and well being. Assessments were repeated after 12 weeks. At 2 weeks, there were significant improvements in the FIQ (P < 0.014) and for most of secondary outcomes for the IM group compared to the CM group. The beneficial effects for the IM approach were reduced after 12 weeks and no longer statistically significant with the exception of anxiety. Findings indicate that a multimodal IM treatment with fasting therapy might be superior to CM in the short term and not inferior in the mid term. Longer-term studies are warranted to assess the clinical impact of integrative multimodal treatment in fibromyalgia.
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