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Question: Among premature infants, does osteopathic manipulative treatment decrease the length of stay in the NICU?
Question type: Intervention
Study design: Randomized controlled
Investigators from Santo Spirito Hospital in Pescara, Italy conducted a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in reducing the length of stay of preterm infants in the NICU. Infants >14 days of age who were born between 29 and 37 weeks gestation and admitted to the NICU were enrolled in the study and randomized to the intervention (OMT) or control group. Eight osteopathic physicians were involved and randomly divided into 2 groups: 4 osteopathic physicians performed an osteopathic …
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