Effectiveness Of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment In NICU: A Multicenter Clinical Trial

European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine

Status

Completed

Conditions

Prematurity

Treatments

Other: osteopathic manipulative treatment

Other: Usual care

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01645137

Multi-NE-O

Details and patient eligibility

About

The use of complementary and alternative medicine in neonatal ward has been steadily rising during the last decade. This integrated medicine approach has been shown to be helpful to improve neonatal health care. Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) has been applied to premature infants to reduce the length of stay and to cope with clinical complications. Results from previous studies documented the positive association between OMT and shorter period of hospitalisation as well as improvement of clinical conditions. The aim of this nationwide multicenter study is to demonstrate the effect of OMT on length of stay (LOS) in premature infants across 3 neonatal intensive care units (NICU).

Enrollment

690 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

29 to 37 weeks old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

preterm infants born at age between 29 and 37 weeks
osteopathic treatment performed < 14 days after birth
preterms born in the same hospital

Exclusion criteria

Gestational age < 29 weeks
Gestational age > 37 weeks
First OMT performed after 14 days from birth
genetic disorders
congenital disorders
cardiovascular abnormalities
proven or suspected necrotized enterocolitis with or without gastrointestinal perforation
proven or suspected abdominal obstruction
pre/post surgery patients
pneumoperitoneum
atelectasis
Newborn from an HIV seropositive/drug addicted mother
respiratory disorders
transferred to/from other hospital
admitted for preterminal comfort care (defined as neither intubation nor cardio-respiratory resuscitation)