Is Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) Beneficial for Elderly Patients Hospitalized With Pneumonia?

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Pneumonia

In brief

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) were used in the 1800s and 1900s to treat pneumonia before the introduction of antibiotics in the mid-1900s. The purpose of this study is to determine if OMT, when used in conjunction with antibiotics and other usual care, will improve the recovery of elderly pneumonia patients.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00258661

Run by

A.T. Still University of Health Sciences

People needed

406

Starts

2004-03-01

Expected to finish

2007-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-10-04

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 50 Years old or older
• Subject is hospitalized in an acute care facility
• Subject must exhibit at least two of the classic symptoms of pneumonia, to include:
• Respiration Rate greater than or equal to 25 respirations per minute
• New or increased cough
• Fever greater than or equal to 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C)
• Pleuritic chest pain
• Worsening of mental or functional status
• Leukocytosis (WBC greater than 12,000 cells per cubic millimeter)
• New or increased physical findings (rales, wheezing, bronchial breath sounds)

You may not qualify if…

• Lung abscess
• Advancing pulmonary fibrosis
• Bronchiectasis
• Pulmonary tuberculosis
• Lung Cancer
• Metastatic malignancy
• Uncontrolled metabolic bone disease that places subject at risk for pathologic bone fracture (i.e. Paget's Disease or hypoparathyroidism)
• Acute or unhealed rib or vertebral fracture
• History of pathologic bone fracture
• Previous participants as subject in the study
• Respiratory failure (intubation)

Where it is running

• Mount Clemens General Hospital — Mount Clemens, Michigan, United States
• Northeast Regional Medical Center — Kirksville, Missouri, United States
• UNDNJ in association with Kennedy Memorial Hospitals- University Medical Center — Stratford, New Jersey, United States
• Doctors Hospital — Columbus, Ohio, United States
• John Peter Smith Health Network — Fort Worth, Texas, United States
• Plaza Medical Center — Fort Worth, Texas, United States
• UNTHSC Osteopathic Medical Center — Fort Worth, Texas, United States

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