• Plos One · Jan 2014

    Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study

    Impact of osteopathic treatment on pain in adult patients with cystic fibrosis--a pilot randomized controlled study.

    • Dominique Hubert, Lucile Soubeiran, Fabrice Gourmelon, Dominique Grenet, Raphaël Serreau, Elodie Perrodeau, Rafael Zegarra-Parodi, and Isabelle Boutron.
    • Adult CF Center and Pulmonology Department, Hôpital Cochin APHP, Paris, France; Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France.
    • Plos One. 2014 Jan 1;9(7):e102465.

    BackgroundPain is a common complication in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and is associated with shorter survival. We evaluated the impact of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) on pain in adults with CF.MethodsA pilot multicenter randomized controlled trial was conducted with three parallel arms: OMT (group A, 16 patients), sham OMT (sham treatment, group B, 8 patients) and no treatment (group C, 8 patients). Medical investigators and patients were double-blind to treatment for groups A and B, who received OMT or sham OMT monthly for 6 months. Pain was rated as a composite of its intensity and duration over the previous month. The evolution of chest/back pain after 6 months was compared between group A and groups B+C combined (control group). The evolution of cervical pain, headache and quality of life (QOL) were similarly evaluated.ResultsThere was no statistically significant difference between the treatment and control groups in the decrease of chest/back pain (difference = -2.20 IC95% [-4.81; 0.42], p = 0.098); also, group A did not differ from group B. However, chest/back pain decreased more in groups A (p = 0.002) and B (p = 0.006) than in group C. Cervical pain, headache and QOL scores did not differ between the treatment and control groups.ConclusionThis pilot study demonstrated the feasibility of evaluating the efficacy of OMT to treat the pain of patients with CF. The lack of difference between the group treated with OMT and the control group may be due to the small number of patients included in this trial, which also precludes any definitive conclusion about the greater decrease of pain in patients receiving OMT or sham OMT than in those with no intervention.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT01293019.

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