Efficacy of a Physiotherapy Treatment in Newborns With Breastfeeding Difficulties

Infants who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria, respectively, were accepted to participate in the study. The randomization of the sample was performed by a statistician, who had no prior contact with either the infants or the parents. The online Randomizer (www.randomizer.org) program was used to randomly generate 200 sets of numbers, each containing two numbers ranging from 1 to 2 in random order. After signing the consent, a code was randomly chosen for each patient, thus ensuring that the 200 patients were equally distributed into two groups according to the group number of each code: group 1 (Myofunctional Therapy group) and group 2 (group sessions lactation).

Infants who met the inclusion criteria were referred to the rehabilitation and physiotherapy service. A physical therapist outside the study was in charge of evaluating the measurements of all infants during the first week of life through all the scales detailed below (pre-test). After randomly assigning the infants, another physiotherapist was responsible for applying the intervention once a week for 30 minutes for a period of 30 days. Once the intervention was finished, all the infants (both intervention groups) were reassessed by the physiotherapist outside the study using the same baseline scales (post-test).