Primary Recipient

OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

Amount

$381,150.00

Award Date

9/01/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a pain disorder defined by chronic widespread pain and multiple muscle-tendon junction tender points. Exercise has been suggested as a treatment for FM. Several exercise interventions in FM have demonstrated that patients who can tole