NCT02727530

The Effectiveness of the Manual Therapy on Infant Colic (MT-IF)

The Effects of Visceral Manual Therapy on Infant Colic Symptoms. A Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Seville · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Day – 180 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The main goal of this study is to get to know if applying manual therapy will reduce the infant colic symptoms for to improve quality of life of babies and parents.

Detailed description

Background: Infant colic is one of the most common disorders in the first year of baby´s life. It is estimated to affect between 10 to 40 % of healthy born children in their first year of life. To determine the effectiveness of a protocol manual therapy in the treatment of colic, using the Infant Colic Severity Questionnaire, we analyzed two intervention groups: experimental in which children received the protocol manual therapy and counseling to parents and the Control group, in which parents received advice only. Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of visceral manual therapy to improve the symptoms on infant colic.

Conditions

• Infant Colic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	VISCERAL MANUAL THERAPY-ADVICES	The subjects of this group will receive an amount of two sessions of visceral manual therapy that will be applied within two weeks. In the first session will be applied procedures in the most superficial body structures. And, in the second session will be applied procedures in the most deep body structures.
OTHER	ADVICES	Advices for parents to improve the management of infant colic

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-04-01
• Primary completion: 2016-06-01
• Completion: 2016-07-01
• First posted: 2016-04-04
• Last updated: 2016-07-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain