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Osteopathy in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Rehabilitation Trial

NCT00637299 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: EARLY_PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2011-10-24

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Summary

The purpose of this trial is to verify if an osteopathic treatment added to usual pulmonary rehabilitation trial is able to improve the walking ability of COPD patients and if there is any influence on lung functionality.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Active osteopathic treatment (OMT+PR): Active Comparator

The treatment was done once a week for 4 weeks and lasted 30 minutes.The examination was done according to the following scheme: anamnesis; physical examination (evaluation of the posture, palpation, tests for passive and active motion of areas linked to altered respiratory function); cranic-sacral evaluation (by means of a palpation of the cranic-sacral mechanism).

OTHER

sham osteopathic treatment (SOT+PR)

Only soft manipulation was performed

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ercole Zanotti, md · Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2008-07-31
Completion
2008-11-30

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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