Unpublished MSc thesis, Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, 2007/01, 88, type of study: ,cct,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Keywords:

climacteric complaints [1]
menopause [16]
osteopathic manipulative treatment [3945]
OMT [3924]
female [654]
women [607]
perimenopause [3]
controlled clinical trial [324]
quality of life [126]
WSO [508]

Abstract:

Background And Aim: Perimenopause and menopause are still widely regarded as illnesses. There is little research on alternative approaches which could lend support to women in this very sensitive time of transition. Osteopathy is a holistic way of treating women individually and of stimulating self-regulatory forces of the body. This study wants to show how osteopathic treatment can influence quality of life and menopausal complaints during the transition of perimenopause. Methods: For a period of three months 13 healthy women with menopausal complaints underwent a total of three tests on quality of life (SF-36) and menopausal complaints (MRS II) and received two osteopathic treatments. Changes in health perception during the first six.weeks (=control group) were compared with the changes during the second six weeks (=treatment group). Results: During the whole period of observation there was a clear trend towards improvement of complaints and during treatment there was no trend towards decline. All the women showed in individually different areas clear improvement in their health perception. Conclusions: With osteopathic treatment menopausal complaints can be reduced in individually different ways and quality of life can be improved. It is not possible to establish a common pattern; the effect seems to be different for each individual woman. Larger sample surveys and longer observation periods would be necessary in order to obtain statistically significant results.