Changes in sleeping patterns in colic-suffering babies treated with osteopathy
Item
- Title
- Changes in sleeping patterns in colic-suffering babies treated with osteopathy
- Title
- Canvis en el patró de son en nadons tractats amb osteopatia per còlics intestinals
- Author(s)
- Reyes Núñez, Ariadna
- Abstract
- In scientific literature, the more frequently used criteria to define colic are those from the paediatricians Wessel 1 and Carey 2, characterized by uncontrollable crying episodes in healthy and well-fed infants. To an osteopathic level, there are several studies dealing with infant colic, but no firm conclusions can be drawn from them. This study intends to assess whether osteopathic treatment for intestinal colic has effects on the sleeping time and crying episodes of the infants. A case study with 9 patients (90% boys and 10% girls, all of them with an average age of 5.8 weeks) has been carried out. A series of 30 minutes sessions has been conducted with each one of them, once a week, along 4 weeks. For assessing the results, we have used the sleep questionnaire Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire 3, and crying time has been quantified during the 24 previous hours to every one of the 4 sessions and once more a week after the last treatment. It has been observed the following: sleeping time has increased 3 hours per day and the time the baby spends awake during the night has been reduced in about 1 hour and 20 minutes. Sleep is interrupted on average three times less per night, in addition, the baby falls asleep 1 hour and 19 minutes earlier and spends 2 hours and 37 minutes less crying (p.<0.001). Therefore, it may be conclude that osteopathic treatment can significantly improve sleeping patterns of infants suffering from colics, as it has helped increasing sleeping hours both for day and night, and has reduced weeping episodes and sleep disruptions.
- Abstract
- Els criteris utilitzats més freqüentment per definir el còlic, són els dels pediatres Wessel 1 i Carey 2, es caracteritzen per episodis de plor incontrolables en lactants sans i ben alimentats. A nivell osteopàtic existeixen diferents estudis, però no permeten extraure conclusions extrapolables. En aquest estudi s'ha valorat si el tractament osteopàtic per a còlics intestinals té efectes en el son i les hores de plor del lactant. S'ha realitzat un estudi de casos amb 9 pacients (90% nens, 10% nenes i amb una mitjana d’edad de 5’8 setmanes), als quals s’ha tractat durant 4 sessions, amb una freqüència setmanal i amb una duració de 30 minuts cadascuna. Per a la valoració del patró de son, s'ha utilitzat el qüestionari de son Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire 3 i s’han quantificat les hores de plor durant les 24h prèvies als 4 tractaments i una setmana després del darrer. Com a resultat, s’ha observat un augment de 3h de son al dia (p< 0.05) i una reducció d’1h20 en el temps que el nadó passa despert durant la nit. El son es veu interromput una mitja de 3 vegades menys per nit i, a més, s’adorm 1h19 abans i plora 2h37 menys (p<0.05). Es conclou que el tractament osteopàtic ha millorat clínicament el patró de son del lactant de la población estudiada, atès que han augmentat les hores de son tant diürnes com nocturnes i que han disminuït les interrupcions del son i les hores de plor.
- presented at
- Escola de Osteopatia de Barcelona (EOB)
- Date Accepted
- 2014
- Date Submitted
- 3.7.2015 16:48:46
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- Catalan
- Number of pages
- 44
- Submitted by:
- 84
- Pub-Identifier
- 15591
- Inst-Identifier
- 1049
- Keywords
- colic; infant; sleep
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- ariadna_reyes.pdf.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
- Media
- ariadna_reyes.pdf.pdf
Reyes Núñez, Ariadna, “Changes in sleeping patterns in colic-suffering babies treated with osteopathy”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed March 25, 2025, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/2395