NCT00637299

Osteopathy in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Rehabilitation Trial

Osteopathic Treatment May Improve Exercise Capacity in Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

• Status: Completed
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this trial is to verify if an osteopathic treatment added to usual pulmonary rehabilitation trial is able to improve the walking ability of COPD patients and if there is any influence on lung functionality.

Detailed description

The investigators decided to perform an osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in a population of COPD patients. OMT was defined as the therapeutic application of manually guided forces by an osteopathic practitioner to improve physiologic function and/or support homeostasis that has been altered by somatic dysfunction. Concerning the respiratory system, osteopathy considers a model that describes the interdependent functions among five body components as follows: 1: the inherent motility of the brain and spinal cord; 2: fluctuation of the cerebrospinal fluid; 3: mobility of the intracranial and intraspinal membranes; 4: articular mobility of the cranial bones; 5: the involuntary mobility of the sacrum between the ilia. This model is the so called primary respiratory mechanism.

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Active osteopathic treatment (OMT+PR): Active Comparator	The treatment was done once a week for 4 weeks and lasted 30 minutes.The examination was done according to the following scheme: anamnesis; physical examination (evaluation of the posture, palpation, tests for passive and active motion of areas linked to altered respiratory function); cranic-sacral evaluation (by means of a palpation of the cranic-sacral mechanism).
OTHER	sham osteopathic treatment (SOT+PR)	Only soft manipulation was performed

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-01-01
• Primary completion: 2008-07-01
• Completion: 2008-11-01
• First posted: 2008-03-17
• Last updated: 2011-10-24
• Results posted: 2009-04-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy