NCT01645137

Effectiveness Of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment In NICU: A Multicenter Clinical Trial

Effectiveness Of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment In Neonatal Intensive Care Units: A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 690 (estimated)
• Sponsor: European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 29 Weeks – 37 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The use of complementary and alternative medicine in neonatal ward has been steadily rising during the last decade. This integrated medicine approach has been shown to be helpful to improve neonatal health care. Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) has been applied to premature infants to reduce the length of stay and to cope with clinical complications. Results from previous studies documented the positive association between OMT and shorter period of hospitalisation as well as improvement of clinical conditions. The aim of this nationwide multicenter study is to demonstrate the effect of OMT on length of stay (LOS) in premature infants across 3 neonatal intensive care units (NICU).

Conditions

• Prematurity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	osteopathic manipulative treatment	Patients from this group received osteopathic treatments twice a week for the entire length of stay in the unit.
OTHER	Usual care	Patients from control group received standard care plus osteopathic evaluation only, according to the same schedule as the study group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-07-01
• Primary completion: 2013-09-01
• Completion: 2013-10-01
• First posted: 2012-07-20
• Last updated: 2014-04-25

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Italy