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Matched-Controlled Pilot-Study: Influence of Osteopathic Treatment (Diagnostic Touch Technique) on Fatigue in a Working Population

Journal: Unpublished MSc thesis Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, Date: 2007/03, Pages: 80, type of study: controlled clinical trial

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Keywords:

diagnostic touch [1]
fatigue [32]
MFI-20 [1]
osteopathic manipulative treatment [2973]
OMT [2951]
controlled clinical trial [283]
WSO [433]

Abstract:

The aim of this study is to confirm my hypothesis that “Diagnostic Touch Therapy” (DT) according to R.E. Becker (1997) brings about a reduction in fatigue. The scope of the term fatigue in this work I define as „the state of weariness following a period of exertion, mental or physical characterised by a decreased capacity for work and reduced efficiency to respond to stimuli”. Data concerning fatigue are collected by means of the questionnaire MFI-20. The participants recruited in one company are divided in two groups. The 23 participants of the study group are treated twice by means of DT, the 22 participants of the control group are only asked to complete the MFI-20 (without placebo treatment) in order to register possible seasonal loads. In the therapy I use four different positioned handholds on the patient lying supine on the couch; they are named in order of application and according to the contact area of my hands on the patient: Occiput, Scapulae, Feet and Sacrum. The first questionnaire is filled in before the therapies, the second two weeks after the second treatment. After the second questionnaire, absolute and relative changes in fatigue are calculated for both groups. A decrease in fatigue can be deduced from the answers of 21 of the 23 participants in the DT-group (91.3%), whereas only five of the 22 members of the control group mentioned a decrease in fatigue (23.8%). In the DT group an average relative decrease in fatigue of –23.8% (SD=69.3) can be observed between the two questionnaires, in the control group an average increase of fatigue of +8.8% (SD=17.5). Results of the u-test show significant differences (p=7*10-7). In addition, concomitant symptoms of fatigue, e.g. headache, backache and troubled sleep, are significantly reduced in the study-group after the two treatments. In summary, my hypothesis is confirmed by the results obtained in this study.


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