NCT01784835

Early Exposure to OMT Prevents Long LOS

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 113 (actual)
• Sponsor: European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 32 Weeks – 37 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The application of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in preterm infants has been demonstrated to be effective in reducing length of stay (LOS). The scope of the present study is to investigate the association between earlier exposure to OMT and reduction of LOS in premature infants

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: 2010-10-01
• Primary completion: 2012-07-01
• Completion: 2012-07-01
• First posted: 2013-02-06
• Last updated: 2013-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy