Unexplained Subfertility and Osteopathic Treatment
Item
- Title
- Unexplained Subfertility and Osteopathic Treatment
- Author(s)
- Kapper Astrid
- Abstract
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Background: Infertility or subfertility affects 10 to 15% of couples trying to conceive for one year. After one year severe subfertility has to be assumed although among these untreated couples the live birth rate reaches 55% after three years.
The purpose of this investigation is to support the hypothesis that osteopathic treatment might raise the pregnancy rate in women with unexplained subfertility as the study of Kirchmayr concludes that a woman with the problem of infertility receiving osteopathic treatment has an increased chance of becoming pregnant.
Design: A `within subject design´ is used as a special form of the repeated measure design.
Methods: Ten women with unexplained subfertility for at least twenty-four months receive osteopathic treatment for a period of six months. The women aged between 31 and 40 years are treated by four different osteopaths maximally of eight times. Questionnaires at the beginning and the end of the treatment period are collected and analysed in comparison.
Result: One woman conceives after six months and nine do not conceive. The women profit in regard of their period pain.
Discussion: The result which differs widely from the study result of Kirchmayr does not support the hypothesis that osteopathic treatment rises the pregnancy rate, but it demands further investigation to clear the role of osteopathy in the field of unexplained subfertility. The different results seem to be caused by different characteristics of the two study groups concerning age and especially the period of unwanted non-conception.
In further research it seems more responsible to look for participants who have a shorter period of non-conception than in this study.
Key words: unexplained subfertility, female infertility, osteopathic treatment - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2007
- Date Submitted
- 1.3.2007 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13459
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Fertility,Infertility
- Recommended
- 0
- Medium
- Kapper.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
- Media
- Kapper.pdf
Kapper Astrid, “Unexplained Subfertility and Osteopathic Treatment”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 15, 2024, https://www.osteopathic-research.com/s/orw/item/3002