ABSTRACT
Introduction: systematic physical exercise constitutes an indispensable tool for the treatment of patients with fibromyalgia: and even more so in the COVID-19 stage. Objective: to verify the effectiveness of home therapeutic physical exercises in the care of patients with fibromyalgia during covid-19. Methods: a pre-experiment was conducted with a purposive sample of 20 patients with fibromyalgia. A general characterization of the sample was performed. The Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire was used to know the general impact of the pathology and the Visual Analog Scale to determine the intensity of the patients' pain. Physical tests were used to determine the physical condition of the sample. The McNemar and Wilcoxon nonparametric test was applied to identify changes produced in the patients through the application of home therapeutic physical exercises. Results: the implementation of the research methods and techniques showed that the average age was 47.85 years with a predominance of the female sex (95.0 %). At the beginning of the research, the Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire scores showed that 85.0 % of the patients were in moderate and severe impact of the disease, as well as the Visual Analog Scale, which showed that the patients were in moderate and severe pain. The evaluation of the physical tests showed that most of the patients were in inadequate physical condition. After implementing the home therapeutic physical exercises, an improvement of the evaluated parameters was demonstrated, thus evidenced by the contracting of inferential statistics through McNemar since the results were at a lower level for p=0.005 and the Wilcoxon Z results resulted in a bilateral significance of 0.000. Conclusions: it is concluded that the results obtained evidenced significant changes in fibromyalgia patients, which can be said that home therapeutic physical exercises were effective in fibromyalgia patients during isolation by COVID-19.