Säuglinge mit frühkindlicher Regulationsstörung - eine Pilotstudie

Early childhood regulation disorder is a term that is used for babies with sleeping, feeding and stooling problems, failure to thrive and/or chronic anxiety. The following pilot study was carried out to investigate the effectivity of a osteopathic treatment (local/systemic) in comparison to no treatment. Based on the treatment of the examinees (each group consisting of five children) a very first trend regarding the positive effect of osteopathic treatment was shown. This trend was described in a screaming journal kept by the parents. Within the testing period the local treatment group (IG1) showed an improvement after the second treatment. The systematic treatment group (IG2) showed improvement after the third treatment. However, at the end of this study the IG2 showed better results than the IG1 (54% to 58%). The control group presented an improvement by 18%.