Impact of Lockdown on Patients with Fibromyalgia

On March 11, 2020, WHO, faced with the levels of spread and seriousness situation, declares COVID-19 a pandemic. In European countries almost everywhere else in world, people are confined to their homes view imminent producing reduced mobility essential activities. This lockdown has had repercussions at different levels: (i) Inaccessibility face-to-face healthcare, including loss multidisciplinary support programs for chronic pain patients. (ii) Physical reduction or inactivity due overloaded childcare housework, lack space online resources practice, and/or as consequence unrefreshing sleep. (iii) Feelings loneliness, social support, uncertainty provision health care if needed, fear contagion when exposed open environments activities, among others. (iv) Permanent temporary employment, implementation teleworking remote work, modifying usual spaces work occupation, interpersonal relationships inherent this activity. (v) Vulnerability, especially elderly population groups, associated exposure large amount information from reliable unreliable sources, making it difficult understand, make decisions. (vi) Loss family members relatives without these events. The sum all them entails series consequences lives citizens that do not go unnoticed. use telerehabilitation offers possibility providing an accesible therapeutic context (assessment, treatment, follow-up) situations limit patient’s relationship environment such confinement suffered. It is sense where would be interest consider application telematic routes other causes accessibility physical, programmatic, social, transport barriers, aim reaching target by personalized care.