OPT-IN: Osteopathic Plagiocephaly Treatment for Infants and Neonates

Status: Recruiting
Location: See location...
Intervention Type: Behavioral, Procedure
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

The goal of this crossover randomized clinical trial is to assess the effects of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) compared to standard of care repositioning in children diagnosed with positional/deformational plagiocephaly. The main hypothesis is that children who received OMT will show significantly improved anthropometric measures of cranial symmetry over those receiving the current pediatric standard of care of repositioning. This is a two-arm, randomized cross-over clinical trial. With parental consent, pediatric patients (infants \<4 months of age) will be organized into one of two groups: 1. Those who receive OMT with emphasis on osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine (OCMM) to restore cranial symmetry. 2. Those who receive standard care only with repositioning attention from the parents After 8-weeks of being in the first group, each participant will cross-over into the second group (OMT or repositioning) N = 122 subjects diagnosed with deformational plagiocephaly (DP) are to be recruited (to allow for natural attrition and loss to follow up) with the recruitment to continue until 61 patients have been placed in each of the two groups and will cross-over to the respective treatment group (OMT and standard of care repositioning therapy). Timeline: It is projected that to recruit and carry out the assessments and interventions (8-weeks of each group with 12-months of follow-up longitudinally), it will require two years (24-months) from the beginning of the study to completion.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 1 day
Maximum Age: 4 months
Healthy Volunteers: f
View:

• Diagnosed with positional plagiocephaly

• Under 4-months of age (between birth - 4 months) at the time of enrollment

Locations
United States
California
Osteopathic Center San Diego
RECRUITING
San Diego
Contact Information
Primary
Kimberly J Wolf, DO
wolfkimb@gmail.com
19373699290
Backup
Jessica Martone, PhD, MSW
jessica.martone@the-promise.org
619-693-6303
Time Frame
Start Date: 2023-10-26
Estimated Completion Date: 2025-12
Participants
Target number of participants: 122
Treatments
Experimental: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment
Patients will be treated once a week with OMT x 8 weeks
Active_comparator: Standard of Care Repositioning
Patients will only receive repositioning only x 8 weeks and all parents will receive standardized materials to counsel/instruct on the repositioning
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Osteopathy's Promise to Children

This content was sourced from clinicaltrials.gov