Exploring the impact of osteopathic treatment on cranial asymmetries associated with nonsynostotic plagiocephaly in infants
| Autor: | Sylvie Lessard, Isabelle Gagnon, Nathalie Trottier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Moderate to severe Male medicine.medical_specialty Pilot Projects law.invention Randomized controlled trial law medicine Humans Plagiocephaly Nonsynostotic business.industry Infant Anthropometry medicine.disease Manipulation Osteopathic Clinical trial Skull medicine.anatomical_structure Complementary and alternative medicine Osteopathy Research Design Physical therapy Female Plagiocephaly business |
| Zdroj: | Complementary therapies in clinical practice. 17(4) |
| ISSN: | 1873-6947 |
| Popis: | Objectives: To document the evolution of cranial asymmetries in infants with signs of nonsynostotic occipital plagiocephaly (NSOP) who were to undergo a course of four osteopathic treatments (in addition to the standard positioning recommendations) as well as to determine the feasibility of using this methodology to conduct a randomized clinical trial investigating the impact of osteopathic intervention for infants with NSOP. Design: Pilot clinical standardization project using pre-post design in which 12 infants participated. Ten infants presented an initial Oblique Diameter Difference Index (ODDI) over 104% and five of them had an initial moderate to severe Cranial Vault Asymmetry (CVA) (over 12 mm). Interventions: Infants received four osteopathic treatments at 2-week intervals. Main outcome measures: Anthropometric, plagiocephalometric as well as qualitative measures were administered pre-intervention (T1), during the third treatment (T2) and two weeks after the fourth treatment (T3). Results: Participants showed a significant decrease in CVA (p ¼0.02), Skull Base Asymmetry (SBA) (p ¼0.01), Trans-Cranial Vault Asymmetry (TCVA) (p |
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