Treatment of Primary Raynaud`s Syndrome with Osteopathy
Item
- Title
- Treatment of Primary Raynaud`s Syndrome with Osteopathy
- Author(s)
- Kalcakosz-Takacs Tamara
- Abstract
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The sample size of this study was not large enough, however the results show that patients, who
suffer from primary Raynaud’s Syndrome have a significant reduction in the severity of their
disease with osteopathic treatment.
The experiences during this study lead to some reflections, which should be taken into consideration
for further research:
• It should be discussed if problems of the cervical spine should be an exclusion criteria. The number
of patients in the treatment group was reduced by this circumstance and mainly patients with
problems of the thoracic spine were included. For the osteopathic approach this exclusion
criteria seems to be irrelevant.
• As already discussed, the measurements using various apparatus are not that precise, as considered,
and diverging. Moreover they are only a snapshot. This problem leads to look for other
possibilities measuring the therapeutic effect more precisely. One possibility would be useing
standardised quality of life questionaires, to assess the quality of treatment as well.
• Patients diaries could offer a continous observation of the therapeutic progress. It enables us to
acquire more information about the individual triggers and circumstances, which lead to ischemic
attacks.
To show the significance of this study a t-test was made as well although due to the small sample
size only trends can be shown. The result of this test regarding the frequency of attacks reached
2,40530059. This means that this result of the study is accurate with a probability of 97,5%. This
is done with all parameters of measurment as seen in the appendix.
All these results show that osteopathic treatment could be a therapeutic option in primary
Raynaud’s Syndrome in the future, when more data is available and more extensive studies are
done on this subject. The results of this study are quite promising and deserve further attention
and research. - 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
- 50
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 13504
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Raynauds Disease
- Recommended
- 1
- Medium
- Kalcakosz-TakacsTamara.pdf
- Item sets
- Thesis
Kalcakosz-Takacs Tamara, “Treatment of Primary Raynaud`s Syndrome with Osteopathy”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 10, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/2994