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Preventative Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) and the Nursing Home Patient

NCT01000142 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 22

Last updated 2018-09-28

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Summary

This pilot research study will investigate the possible benefit that elderly nursing home patients may receive from regular Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM) care during the winter months. The study is based on the osteopathic philosophies that structure and function are interrelated and that the body has self-healing mechanisms. The body is expected to have optimized ability to heal itself "when all its parts are in place" (AT Still). This study is looking at subject population for whom their ability to take care of themselves is diminished by their underlying diseases. Based on the osteopathic philosophies, optimization of the nursing home patient's physical structure through osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) should enhance their body's homeostatic mechanisms. This study is assessing the validity of these philosophies by looking at the effect of OMT on the global health of these individuals.

Conditions

  • General Health Status

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment

Focused osteopathic musculoskeletal exam; paraspinal muscle inhibition and/or soft tissue kneading or stretching; rib raising and or rib mobilization; abdominal diaphragm release technique; abdominal mesenteric/colon release; thoracic inlet release technique; hip flexion/extension range of motion; shoulder range of motion with pectoral traction; cervical paraspinal muscle inhibition and/or soft tissue kneading or stretching; suboccipital release technique; specific OMT of significant somatic dysfunction (variable).

PROCEDURE

Light Touch

Focused osteopathic musculoskeletal exam; contact ribs to simulate rib raising and paraspinal muscle inhibition; contact lower rib margin to simulate abdominal diaphragm release; palpate the four quadrants of the abdomen to simulate abdominal mesenteric/colon release; contact shoulders to simulate thoracic inlet release; contact suboccipital region to simulate thoracic inlet release.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • A.T. Still University of Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Karen T Snider, DO · A.T. Still University-Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-10-31
Primary Completion
2010-06-30
Completion
2010-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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