NCT03659032

Efficacy of Pediatric Manual Therapy in the Positional Plagiocephaly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Zaragoza · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the efficacy of Pediatric Manual Therapy in the treatment of positional plagiocephaly in infants. 40 participants will receive a protocol of Pediatric Manual Therapy and educational physiotherapy in combination, while the other 20 will receive only educational physiotherapy

Detailed description

The Manual Therapy has shown efficacy in different pathologies in the adult but it is not know its utility in infants and children population, nor in specific pathologies as non synostotic plagiocephaly. In the conservative treatment of plagiocephaly the educational physiotherapy and the helmet therapy have the better level of evidence among other treatments. A protocol of ten sessions of Pediatric Manual Therapy will be applied to infants with positional plagiocephaly in combination with educational physiotherapy. The protocol consists in soft cervical mobilisation, myofascial induction and the application of some pressures to the cranial bones to improve the asymmetry of the head. Educational therapy which consists in more "tummy time" stimulation, stimulation to the non preference position of the head and counter positioning. The control group will receive only Educational therapy.

Conditions

• Plagiocephaly
• Plagiocephaly, Nonsynostotic
• Plagiocephaly, Positional

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Pediatric Manual Therapy
PROCEDURE	Educational Physical Therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2019-07-30
• Completion: 2020-01-10
• First posted: 2018-09-06
• Last updated: 2020-03-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain