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Craniosacral Therapy Improves Infant Neurodevelopment

NCT05340049 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 120

Last updated 2025-01-22

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Summary

Craniosacral exploration and therapy is one of the innovative palpation and treatment techniques in specialized physiotherapy, which can contribute in an efficient, subtle and sudden way to the detection of dysfunctions in the cranial sutures or fontanelles and/or alterations or blockages that may exist in the frontal lobes and other areas of the skull and body. Objective: To compare the effectiveness of craniosacral therapy with respect to traditional primitive reflex treatment therapy and how it influences the neurodevelopment of the healthy child through the Battelle scale, and to test the effectiveness of both therapies witn their placebos. Methodology: 120 children were treated without excluding sex divided into four groups: placebo group of craniosacral therapy (n=30), Placebo group of rythmic Movement Therapy (n=30), rhytmic movement therapy (n=30) and craniosacral therapy group (n=30).

Conditions

  • Child Development Disorder

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Academic behavioral intervention of teachers

the school teachers examined neurobehavioral aspects of the students using the "Battelle Developmental Inventory" (BDI), which evaluates five areas of development (personal/social, adaptive, motor, communicative and cognitive) between 2 and 8 years of age. Evaluation of the Battelle scale was carried out before and after the therapy sessions.

PROCEDURE

Therapy sessions

Seven sessions were given to each of the three groups according to their classification (PCST, PMRT, TMR, TCS), being able to obtain a stable value in each of the treatments carried out. Before each session, the effect of the previous session was explored in order to evaluate its efficacy (from the second session onwards). Each of the therapies had the same number of sessions (1 per week for 7 weeks) in order to have equality in all the parameters evaluated. The effectiveness values of the cranial blocks and primitive reflexs therapies were expressed as block or normal and active or inactive, depending on what finds the physiotherapist in his evaluation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Clinica Gema Leon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Irene Cantarero Carmona, Study chair · Universidad de Córdoba

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
8 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-12-18
Primary Completion
2022-04-21
Completion
2022-04-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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