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Conditions
Brief summary
OBJECTIVES OF THE DOCTORAL THESIS: 1) To determine whether osteopathic manipulation (G. Experimental) of the vertebrae T9-T10, during an episode of tonsillitis, corresponds to the total disappearance of symptoms in a significantly lower number of days that the manipulation patients with placebo (G. Control). 2) To determine whether osteopathic manipulation (G. Experimental) of the vertebrae T9-T10, during an episode of tonsillitis, corresponds to a decrease in the number of recurrences during the following year, significantly higher than in patients with placebo manipulation (G . Control).3) 3) To determine if there is any association between the treatment results and any of the variables controlled in this study (sex, age, number of previous episodes in last year). HYPOTHESIS: 1 st) The osteopathic manipulation (G. Experimental) of the vertebrae T9-T10, during an episode of tonsillitis, corresponds to the total disappearance of symptoms in a significantly lower number of days that patients with placebo manipulation (G . Control). 2nd) The osteopathic manipulation (G. Experimental) of the vertebrae T9-T10, during an episode of tonsillitis, corresponds to a decrease in the number of recurrences during the following year, significantly higher than in patients with placebo manipulation (G. Control ). 3 rd) relationship exists between the results of osteopathic treatment of tonsillitis and some of the additional variables considered in this study.
Interventions
METHODOLOGY: Experimental, longitudinal and mixed (prospective-retrospective) design (retrospective information on the number of episodes last year, obtained by patient questionnaire). Convenience sampling. All the cases that come for manipulative treatment of diagnosed tonsillitis are included, once the criteria of inclusion and exclusion have been applied. Independiently, they also receive pharmacological treatment prescribed by your blinded doctor. After filling in the questionnaire (age, se
METHODOLOGY: Experimental, longitudinal and mixed (prospective-retrospective) design (retrospective information on the number of episodes last year, obtained by patient questionnaire). Convenience sampling. All the cases that come for manipulative treatment of diagnosed tonsillitis are included, once the criteria of inclusion and exclusion have been applied. Independiently, they also receive pharmacological treatment prescribed by your blinded doctor. After filling in the questionnaire (age, sex, number of episodes the previous year, etc) and signing the informed agreement, they are randomized in two groups: Experimental Group (receive one osteopathic manipulation of the vertebrae T9-T10, thrust with sitting patient's arms across chest, by a trained physiotherapist-osteopath, professor of Osteopathic Methodology) or Control Group (receive one very soft streching in the same position, by the same trained physiotherapist-osteopath, to the Placebo Group). In both groups, only one manipulation or stretching in a single session (of one minute of duration). All the changes in the symptomatology of tonsillitis are recorded in the first week and each month in the following year, recording also the recurrences (by phone call of blinded collaborator).
Sponsors
Agustin Luceno Mardones
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Blinded (masking used) (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
3 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
- 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)
Exclusion criteria
- 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.
Outcome results
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