Primary Dysmenorrhea and Osteopathic Treatment

Summary

This study is adressed to women with primary dysmenorrhea, it´s a gynecological disorder that is defined as colicky pain associated with menstruation and is located in the lower abdomen and in the lumbo-pelvic area. It appears between the first 8-72 hours and four days of the menstrual cycle and affects almost 85% of women, 30% of them severely. This study aims to demonstrate that osteopathic manual therapy is an effective therapeutic option in patients with primary dysmenorrhea. Another objective is to verify that osteopathic manual treatment provides an improvement in the intensity of pain, quality of life and a reduction in the consumption of medicines in these patients.

Conditions

• Pelvic Pain
• Pelvic Pain Syndrome
• Sexual Dysfunction

Interventions

OTHER

Control Group

Bilateral global pelvic manipulation. Lower right limb in extension. The left lower limb in flexion, until the tension on the SPIS was felt. Introduce very little rotation of the spine. ASI anterior slide until crease forms at waist. We bring the elbow towards our hips. We rotate the patient posteriorly to open the lumbo sacral facet. The thrust is performed by simultaneously increasing these three parameters, with kick and joint compression.

OTHER

Experimental Group

Bilateral Global Pelvic Manipulation and Internal Correction Technique for Laterflexion of the Uterus The technique consists of making contact with the vaginal fingers on the upper and anterior part of the cervix, while the abdominal hand, dragging the skin towards the pubis, tries to make contact as posterior as possible on the fundus of the uterus. The technique consists, while the patient breathes widely, in progressively raising the uterine fundus forward and upward and lowering the cervix until the normal anteversion position is achieved. At the end of the technique, fixing the correction position of the uterus, we can ask the patient to perform a pelvic anteversion, while the correction is maintained. At the end of the technique, all abnormal tension should have disappeared and the uterus should have recovered a physiological position of anteversion.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Seville

  collaborator OTHER

• Escuela de osteopatía de Madrid

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• François Ricard, DO · Escuela Osteopatía Madrid

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

30 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2021-07-31

Primary Completion

2021-09-30

Completion

2021-11-30

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations