• María Mar López-Rodríguez, Manuel Fernández-Martínez, Guillermo A Matarán-Peñarrocha, María Encarnación Rodríguez-Ferrer, Genoveva Granados Gámez, and Encarnación Aguilar Ferrándiz.
• Departamento de Enfermería y Fisioterapia, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Almería, Almería, España. Electronic address: mlr295@ual.es.
• Med Clin Barcelona. 2013 Dec 7;141(11):471-8.

Background And ObjectiveTo analyze the effects of an aquatic biodance based therapy on sleep quality, anxiety, depression, pain and quality of life in fibromyalgia patients.Patients And MethodRandomized controlled trial with 2 groups. Fifty-nine patients were assigned to 2 groups: experimental group (aquatic biodance) and control group (stretching). The outcome measures were quality of sleep (Pittsburgh questionnaire), anxiety (State Anxiety Inventory), depression (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale), pain (visual analogue scale, pressure algometry and McGill) and quality of life (Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire) before and after a 12-week therapy.ResultsAfter treatment, we observed significant differences in the experimental group (P<.05) on sleep quality (49.7%), anxiety (14.1%), impact of fibromyalgia (18.3%), pain (27.9%), McGill (23.7%) and tender points (34.4%).ConclusionsAquatic biodance contributed to improvements in sleep quality, anxiety, pain and other fibromyalgia symptoms.Copyright © 2012 Elsevier España, S.L. All rights reserved.

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