Introduction: Fibromyalgia is a chronic disease characterized by generalized pain. It is often accompanied by other symptoms, such as fatigue, stiffness, sleep disturbances, cognitive impairment, and psychological problems. An interdisciplinary chronic pain team includes physicians, psychologist, physical therapist, social workers and occupational therapists. The entire team is focused on achieving common goals, which are established in collaboration with the patient. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis was to evaluate the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program tailored to the conditions of the COVID-19 epidemic to improve patient functional outcome. The study also sought to determine whether there was a statistically significant association between program efficiency and age, sex, education level, and type of program. Methods: 100 adults diagnosed with fibromyalgia (51,7 ± 9,6 years) who completed the interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program. These included women and 7 men. Retrospectively, we analysed the results of measurements performed between June 2020 and December 2020 at URI - Soča. The differences between the values obtained before and after the whole treatment were evaluated with the nonparametric Wilcoxon test. Differences between genders were evaluated with the Mann Whitney test. To determine the correlation between age and education level and program efficiency, the Spearman correlation coefficient was used. The threshold for statistical characteristics was set at p ⡤ 0,05. Results: We confirmed the efficiency of the adaptable interdisciplinary rehabilitation program. However, we did not demonstrate that gender affected program efficiency. Patients who participated in an adapted interdisciplinary rehabilitation program showed a statistically significant change in the improvement of static and dynamic balance (p = 0,003). In patients, who participated in an interdisciplinary functional treatment program, a statistically significant change was achieved in the improvement of free limb performance and endurance (p = 0,004). We proved that the level of education affects the performance and endurance of the muscles of the beloved limbs, as well as static and dynamic balance. The analysis of the results only partially confirms the correlation of age with performance, as it only affects static and dynamic balance (p = 0,001). Discussion and conclusion: In this study, the efficacy is mainly related to the improvement of balance. In the future, it would be better to study the effectiveness of the program with improving balance in patients with fibromyalgia.
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