NCT02047370

Manual Therapy in Patients With Asthma

Effects of Manual Therapy in Patients With Asthma

• Status: Suspended
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Granada · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Physical therapists have traditionally included various forms of manual therapy among the therapeutic approaches to respiratory conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diaphragmatic stretching technique on pulmonary ventilation, rig bage excursion and spirometric values in patients diagnosed with asthma.

Detailed description

Asthma is a chronic lung disease involving an inflammation and a narrowing of the airways. Asthma causes wheezing, chest tightness, shortness of breath, and coughing. A variety of manual therapies are commonly used to treat patients with asthma. There is a need to conduct studies in order to examine the effects of manual therapies on clinically relevant outcomes. Techniques aim to increase movement in the rib cage and the spine to try and improve the working of the lungs and circulation.

Conditions

• Asthma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Diaphragm stretching	The therapist stands behind the patient and passes his hands around the thoracic cage, carefully introducing fingers under the costal margins. The patient slightly rounds the trunk in order to relax rectus abdominis. During the exhalation of the patient the therapist grasps the lower ribs and costal margin and eases the hands caudally. This traction was maintained during 5-7 minutes.
OTHER	Placebo	The same therapist, patient position and duration of the technique, but using disconnected ultrasound

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-10-01
• Completion: 2016-12-01
• First posted: 2014-01-28
• Last updated: 2015-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain