Cervicobrachialgia. Efficiency and Effectiveness of Osteopathic Treatment in Comparison with Conventional Ultrasound Therapy
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- Title
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Cervicobrachialgia.
Efficiency and Effectiveness of Osteopathic Treatment in Comparison with Conventional Ultrasound Therapy - Author(s)
- Rumer Herma
- Abstract
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By means of a controlled application study I wanted to find out whether the pain symptoms of cervicobrachialgia can be reduced through osteopathic treatment. Further I was interested in comparing the effectiveness of osteopathic treatment with that of conventional electrotherapy, i.e. ultrasound treatment.
The starting point is a thorough discussion of the theory of pain and the signs and symptoms of cervicobrachialgia as well as the application of ultrasound. The next section takes a closer look at osteopathic treatment and assessment methods.
Since this paper concentrates in particular on the lower cervicobrachial syndrome with pain radiating into the shoulder and arm, the focus lies on the brachial plexus, which innervates the arms and shoulders, also because some of the applied treatment techniques involve a direct hand contact in this region.
The analysis of the data in the osteopathic group showed a clear reduction of the pain’s intensity especially in the SF-36 and VAS, which resulted also in a better vitality and mental health. Even though a decrease of the pain’s intensity, as well as an improvement of vitality and mental health could also be observed in the ultrasound group, the change was less pronounced. All other items have improved fairly similarly.
These results show that osteopathic treatment seems to be more effective compared with ultrasound therapy. - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2007
- Date Submitted
- 1.3.2007 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 78
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13524
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Cervical Spine,Cervicobrachialgia
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- RumerHerma.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
- Media
- RumerHerma.pdf
Rumer Herma, “Cervicobrachialgia. Efficiency and Effectiveness of Osteopathic Treatment in Comparison with Conventional Ultrasound Therapy”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 7, 2024, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/2990