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Manual Therapy in Patients With Asthma

NCT02047370 · Status: SUSPENDED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2015-12-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Physical therapists have traditionally included various forms of manual therapy among the therapeutic approaches to respiratory conditions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of diaphragmatic stretching technique on pulmonary ventilation, rig bage excursion and spirometric values in patients diagnosed with asthma.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Diaphragm stretching

The therapist stands behind the patient and passes his hands around the thoracic cage, carefully introducing fingers under the costal margins. The patient slightly rounds the trunk in order to relax rectus abdominis. During the exhalation of the patient the therapist grasps the lower ribs and costal margin and eases the hands caudally. This traction was maintained during 5-7 minutes.

OTHER

Placebo

The same therapist, patient position and duration of the technique, but using disconnected ultrasound

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad de Granada

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Marie Carmen Valenza, PhD · Universidad de Granada

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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