Effectivity of the treatment of tonsillitis with osteopathic manipulation of the vertebrae T9-T10: randomized clinical trial, with patients and assessor blinded.
试验速览
- 阶段
- 未知
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 121
研究概览
简要总结
The main objective of this study was to know if T9-T10 osteopathic manipulation reduces the duration of symptoms, as well as the number of relapses in subjects with tonsillitis. 120 subjects (70 women) aged between 3 and 57 years completed the study, out of 121 tonsillitis patients included and randomized. No between-groups differences were found for any of the baseline characteristics. Through a randomized clinical trial, we have observed that the number of days of resolution of the tonsillitis episode was significantly lower in the Osteopathic Manipulative Group than in the Control Group -sham manipulation-. Likewise, the number of episodes of tonsillitis in the following year decreased significantly in both groups, compared to the previous year, but significantly more in the T9-T10 manipulation group. No patient reported adverse effects in relation to the treatment received.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomised controlled trial
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Blinded (masking used)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 3 Years 至 65 Years（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Diagnosed to be suffering from an episode of tonsillitis (acute or recurrent), less than 48 hours of evolution, or being diagnosed with chronic tonsillitis symptomatic phase.
- •- The signature of informed consent (if an adult patient, or your parent or guardian if the patient is a minor)
排除标准
- •- Age less than 3 years.
- •- Being treated with antibiotics immediately before the tonsilitis episode, because of the difficulty to attribute any improvement to the effect of osteopathic treatment or drug.
- •- Have been previously treated with immunomodulators during the past year, as glycophosphopeptical (Inmunoferon) or anapsos.
- •- Be suffering an episode of pharyngitis or adenoiditis without palate tonsillitis (eg. tonsillectomy).
- •- In cases diagnosed as chronic tonsillitis asymptomatic.
- •- Subjects who do not provide a telephone number in the initial questionnaire for the control callings.
- •- Diseases that prevent osteopathic manipulation of the vertebrae T9-T10.