The Effect of Laryngeal Manual Therapy as a Management of Globus

HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Globus

Treatments: Other: laryngeal manual therapies

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04436146

EMC-20-0014

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of laryngeal manual therapies in the treatment of globus (sensation of a lump in the throat).

Full description

This is a prospective study that include patients who met the inclusion criteria.

Data collection includes patients age,gender,clinical manifistations,laboratory parameters and treatment.

An endoscopic examination will be done by an expert Otolaryngologist. for each patients we will perform one session of laryngeal manual massage therapy by an expert in the field .

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients more than 18 years old
• male and females
• patients complaning from Globus without an organic cause
• patients who underwent throat endoscopy and was normal.
• Patients who received conventional drug therapy without benefit.
• Globus complaints more than two months .

Exclusion criteria

• below 18
• Patients diagnosed with reflux(as a cause to globus)
• Patients who considered at high risk of reflux according to REFLUX SYMPTOM INDEX (RSI) more than 13
• patients who diagnosed with reflux and improved after anti-reflux manegment .
• patients with laryngeal disease/finding that can explain the globus.
• patients with organic cause that can explain the globus .

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 1 patient group

laryngeal manual therapies

Other group

Description:

The laryngeal manual therapy incorporates massaging the laryngeal muscles thus reducing excessive tension in the laryngeal and perilaryngeal musculature in patients with globus .

Treatment:

Other: laryngeal manual therapies