Effects of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in women with Intestinal Constipatio
- Conditions
- Intestinal ConstipationC23.888.821
- Registration Number
- RBR-47nqzj2
- Lead Sponsor
- niverisade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- Female
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Women; age range from 18 to 60 years; present functional constipation as mentioned in the ROME III criteria (LONGSTRETH et al., 2006)
Not accepting manipulations; pregnant women; being in the inflammatory phase of gastrointestinal or urinary diseases (kidney stones, appendicitis, colicistitis, peritonitis); presenting metabolic or cardiovascular diseases; having already undergone some surgical procedure on the spinal column or abdominal cavity; having undergone some type of treatment for constipation less than 6 months ago, such as: use of laxative medications and body massages or teas that alter intestinal motility; present contraindications for the Osteopathic techniques to be performed during the collection of the study, these being: recent fracture, osteoporosis and spinal tumor (PANAGOPOULOS et al. , 2015; FERNANDES et al., 2018)
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method We expect to find improvement in heart rate modulation verified by the Polar H10 through heart rate variability analysis. We will observe whether the heart rate curves will behave in the same way before and after the application of the treatment through the Kubios HRV Software in the time and frequency domain
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method