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Background
Colic in infants is defined as excessive crying in an otherwise healthy and thriving baby. Colic is a common but poorly understood and often frustrating problem for caregivers.
Objective
To study whether osteopathic treatments of infants with infantile colic / excessive crying (IC/EC) have an impact on the subjectively perceived psychol...
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Praktische Erfahrungen zum therapeutischen Einsatz des radioaktiven Edelgases Radon (Halbwertszeit knapp 4 Tage) in Kurorten gehen zurück bis in die Anfänge des 20. Jahrhunderts, als der deutsche Physiker Friedrich Ernst Dorn das Gas entdeckte und als „Radium Emanation“ beschrieb. Eine typische Radonkur besteht aus einer Serie von c...
Background
In Germany, more parents have been seeking help from osteopaths for their infants and children in recent years. This implies an increasing demand of reliable evidence regarding the effectiveness of osteopathic intervention for this group.
Objective
To identify the ‘typical’ (most common) health concerns of parents when presenting their...
Introduction:
In Germany in recent years, a growing number of parents are seeking help from osteopaths for the perceived health complaints of their infants and children. However, reliable evidence for the effectiveness of osteopathic interventions for this group of patients is largely lacking.
Objective:
To observe and document changes in the sy...
Background
Shoulder complaints are common in the general population. Typically, the diagnosis of a specific pathology is lacking. The objective of this trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of an osteopathic treatment in patients suffering from shoulder pain.
Methods
A pragmatic randomized controlled trial was conducted in patients with a histor...
Objective:
To follow both the structure and function related long-term course of shoulders that had been treated with therapeutic ultrasound (US) for symptomatic calcific tendinitis.
Design:
Long-term follow-up of 45 shoulders (37 patients) that had been treated for symptomatic calcific tendinitis with either a series of US or sham US ten years...
Purpose
To identify predictors of both intermediate and long-term unfavorable outcomes after first time, uncomplicated lumbar disc surgery.
Methods
Patients (n = 120) who had undergone lumbar disc surgery were followed up 1.5 and 12 years thereafter. Baseline assessments were carried out 5–8 days after surgery. Clinical outcome was assessed in both...
Fragestellung: Untersuchung der Langzeiteffekte des therapeutischen Ultraschalls auf struktur- und funktionsbezogene Variablen der kalzifizierenden Schultertendinitis. Methodik: Diese 10 Jahres-Langzeitbeobachtung verfolgte Schultern von Patienten mit symptomatischer, kalzifizierender Tendinitis, welche eine Serie mit 24 Ultraschall-/Scheinultrasch...
Objective:
To investigate the excess risk of degeneration and segmental instability in operated segments late after lumbar disc surgery in patients with presurgically stable segments, and whether local pathological findings relate to patients' back health.
Design:
This retrospective analysis reports on 69 patients 12 years after first-time, unco...
Persistent low back pain (LBP) is a common complaint among women during and after pregnancy, and its effects on quality of life can be disabling.
To evaluate the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMTh; manipulative care provided by foreign-trained osteopaths) in women with persistent LBP and functional disability after childbirth....
Purpose: To analyze the associations of disease activity, functioning and socio-demographic factors with activity and participation in patients with RA, and to characterize the RA population of a specialized multiprofessional hospital based outpatient program (HBOP) for RA at baseline focusing on deficits in functioning and disease activity.
Materi...
Objective
To evaluate the long-term effects of postoperative comprehensive physiotherapy starting one week after lumbar disc surgery.
Design
Twelve-year follow-up of a three-armed, randomized, controlled, single-blinded clinical trial.
Setting
Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
Participants
Of 111 patients following first-time, un...
Context:
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common and often lifelong functional gastrointestinal disorder. There is a scarcity of effective management options for IBS.
Objective:
To assess the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMTh) for managing the symptoms of IBS.
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Objectives
To investigate the effectiveness of a series of osteopathic treatments in patients with pain due to primary dysmenorrhea.
Design and settings
Multi-centered randomized controlled trial with an osteopathic intervention group and an untreated (“waiting list”) control group.
Subjects
Women aged 14 years and older with a regular menstrual...
Background:
The etiology of chronic prostatitis chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is still unclear. As no pathological findings exist the diagnosis of CP/CPPS is essentially a diagnosis by exclusion and functional disorders, so-called somatoform disorders play a more important role. Osteopathy treats functional disorders of the musculoskeleta...
In den letzten Jahren werden die absehbaren Folgen der demografischen Entwicklung in Deutschland (und allen übrigen Industrieländern) immer offensichtlicher (Nexus 2010). Die sozialen Sicherungssysteme sind ebenso absehbar immer weniger in der Lage, den steigenden Bedarf an medizinischen und pflegerischen Leistungen zu finanzieren (Schmähl und Ulri...
In various animal models the application of systemic heat and physical activity (PA) has induced an up-regulation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase. Several experts in the field suggest shear stress as the main mechanism. A review was performed to summarize the results from clinical studies investigating the effect of mild systemic heat (MSH) an...
Background
Prostatitis is the most common urological disease in males over the age of 50 years old. As bacteria are detected in only <5% of cases the disease can mostly be classified as chronic nonbacterial prostatitis. The symptoms of this problem complex, often described as chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP-CPPS), seem to b...
In Saxony, the consequences of demographic aging are observable already today. To manage the implications on the health sector, the Saxon Health Targets Steering Committee decided in March 2008 to develop a health target "Active Aging - Aging in Health, Autonomy, and Participation". Target development was based on a 7-level approach (fields of acti...
Prostatitis is the most common urological disease in males under [corrected] the age of 50 years old. As bacteria are detected in only <5% of cases the disease can mostly be classified as chronic nonbacterial prostatitis. The symptoms of this problem complex, often described as chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP-CPPS), seem to...
In Saxony, the consequences of demographic aging are observable already today. To manage the implications on the health sector, the Saxon Health Targets Steering Committee decided in March 2008 to develop a health target “Active Aging – Aging in Health, Autonomy, and Participation”. Target development was based on a 7-level approach (fields of acti...
Ebenbichler G, Resch KL: The dream of a medical specialty named Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine: A commentary on the European White Book of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2009;88:165-167.
Ziel: Die Studie evaluiert, ob bei Patienten mit Fibromyalgie (FM) die milde wassergefilterte Infrarot-A-Ganzkörperhyperthermie (NI-WBH) als Zusatzbehandlung zu einer multimodalen rehabilitativen Standardtherapie (MR) gegenüber alleiniger MR einen therapeutischen Nutzen erbringt.
Methoden: 139 stationäre Patienten einer deutschen Rehabilitationskli...
Chronic non-specific neck pain (CNP) is a common, often disabling condition which still lacks a reliable therapeutic standard. Empiric evidence suggests that osteopathic interventions might be effective in alleviating CNP symptoms. A randomized controlled clinical trial of efficacy was performed to test this hypothesis.
135 CNP sufferers were ident...
Ebenbichler G, Kerschan-Schindl K, Brockow T, Resch KL: The future of physical & rehabilitation medicine as a medical specialty in the era of evidence-based medicine.
Subcutaneous carbon dioxide insufflations are a safe and inexpensive treatment modality in complementary medicine and are used mainly in musculoskeletal pain and vascular conditions. However, no rigorous trial exists on their efficacy.
To evaluate whether patients with acute non specific neck pain get pain free sooner, if treated with subcutaneous...
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Three-group, randomized, single blinded, controlled trial.
To test the effectiveness of physiotherapy-based rehabilitation starting 1 week after lumbar disc surgery. In addition, we tried to estimate the contribution of specific effects to the observed outcome (efficacy).
Physiotherapy-based rehabilitation is usually recommended for patients follow...
To evaluate whether low concentrated saline spa water baths followed by ultraviolet B (LC-SSW-UVB) are superior to UVB alone in moderate to severe psoriasis.
There is a lack of sufficiently large randomized controlled clinical trial evaluating the additional benefit of saltwater baths followed by UVB compared to UVB only in psoriasis.
Partly evalua...
There is a lack of sufficiently large randomized trials evaluating the effectiveness of saline spa balneophototherapy compared to ultraviolet B (UVB) only.
The study aimed to evaluate whether highly concentrated saline spa water baths followed by UVB (HC-SSW-UVB) are superior to UVB only in moderate to severe psoriasis.
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