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Nicette Sergueef - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cranial Osteopathy for infants children and adolescents
2019Co-Authors: Nicette SergueefAbstract:Cranial Osteopathy for Infants, Children and Adolescents -A Practical Handbook By Nicette Sergueef, DO, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA ISBN 0443103526 / 9780443103520 · Paperback · 336 Pages · 240 Illustrations - Churchill Livingstone ·- Price : £ 31.99 Summary This is a practical ‘how to' handbook for osteopathic students and practitioners. The approach is based upon (...)
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The palpated Cranial rhythmic impulse (CRI): Its normative rate and examiner experience
International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, 2011Co-Authors: Nicette Sergueef, Kenneth E. Nelson, Melissa A. Greer, Thomas GlonekAbstract:Abstract This retrospective review study aims to contribute data regarding the normal range of the palpated Cranial rhythmic impulse (CRI) rate from a population of 734 healthy subjects, each determined by a different examiner. Experience levels ranged from 1 to 25 years training/practice in Cranial Osteopathy. This study reports an overall CRI rate range (mean ± SD) of 6.88 ± 4.45cpm for all subjects (valid N = 727). The examiner population was subdivided into three groups based upon the level of examiner experience. The rates obtained from each subgroup, from least experienced to most experienced, are as follows: Level 1 (one year of experience), 7.39 ± 4.70; Level 2 (two years of experience), 6.46 ± 4.10; Level 3 (three-twenty five years of experience), 4.78 ± 2.57. Both group mean values of the reported palpated CRI rates and their standard deviations showed an inverse relationship with the level of examiner experience, i.e., as experience increases, the mean CRI rate and its deviation decreases. In the light of the findings of this study, the currently accepted range of the palpated CRI, 8–14 cycles/minute, should be reconsidered to be as low as 2–7 cycles/minute. Precis CRI rate means and ranges as assessed by experienced examiners are, respectively, lower and narrower.
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2007Co-Authors: Nicette SergueefAbstract:Tienda online donde Comprar Cranial Osteopathy for Infants, Children and Adolescents al precio 53,54 € de Nicette Sergueef, tienda de Libros de Medicina, Libros de Medicina Alternativa - Medicina alternativa
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2007Co-Authors: Nicette SergueefAbstract:Tienda online donde Comprar Cranial Osteopathy for Infants, Children and Adolescents al precio 53,54 € de Nicette Sergueef, tienda de Libros de Medicina, Libros de Medicina Alternativa - Medicina alternativa
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Palpatory diagnosis of plagiocephaly
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2006Co-Authors: Nicette Sergueef, Kenneth E. Nelson, Thomas GlonekAbstract:Summary Introduction The term plagiocephaly , from the Greek plagios (oblique) and kephale (head), means distortion of the head, and refers clinically to Cranial asymmetry. Cranial Osteopathy, since it was first proposed, has focussed upon the diagnosis and treatment of birth trauma and Cranial asymmetries, and consequently specific therapy for plagiocephalic deformities has been described. Osteopathic manipulation also has been proposed as a treatment for torticollis, a condition associated with plagiocephaly. For these reasons, we decided to look at the mechanics of the occipital bone and the adjacent atlas and bones of the Cranial base, in relation to functional plagiocephaly. Methods The records of 649 children seen in an osteopathic practice in Lyon, France, were reviewed retrospectively, in compliance with the legal requirements of the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CRIL) and the Helsinki accord, for gender, age at presentation, birth history, obstetrical data (breech presentation, vacuum extraction, forceps delivery or Caesarean section), presenting complaint, side of posterior plagiocephaly, side of frontal plagiocephaly, torticollis, motion pattern of the occipital bone upon the atlas, and motion pattern of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis. Results We found significant correlations between plagiocephaly (right/left) and primipara ( P = 0.024 ), use of forceps ( P = 0.055 ) and extractor suction ( P = 0.055 ). Correlations were also found between flattening of the occiput (right/left) and lateral strain of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis ( P = 0.002 ) and between plagiocephaly (right/left) and occipito-atlantal motion ( P = 0.000 ). Conclusion We found a significant correlation between the lateral strain pattern of the spheno-occipital synchondrosis and plagiocephaly and between rotational dysfunction of the occiput upon the atlas and the side of posterior plagiocephaly. We suggest that thorough neonatal osteopathic examination can identify individuals predisposed to develop posterior plagiocephaly.
Brenda Mullinger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reprint of a preliminary assessment of the impact of Cranial Osteopathy for the relief of infantile colic
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2009Co-Authors: Clive Hayden, Brenda MullingerAbstract:Abstract In this open, controlled, prospective study, 28 infants with colic were randomized to either Cranial osteopathic manipulation or no treatment; all were seen once weekly for 4 weeks. Treatment was according to individual findings, and administered by the same practitioner. Parents recorded time spent crying, sleeping and being held/rocked on a 24-h diary. A progressive, highly significant reduction between weeks 1 and 4 in crying (hours/24h) was detected ( P P
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a preliminary assessment of the impact of Cranial Osteopathy for the relief of infantile colic
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2006Co-Authors: Clive Hayden, Brenda MullingerAbstract:Summary In this open, controlled, prospective study, 28 infants with colic were randomized to either Cranial osteopathic manipulation or no treatment; all were seen once weekly for 4 weeks. Treatment was according to individual findings, and administered by the same practitioner. Parents recorded time spent crying, sleeping and being held/rocked on a 24-hour diary. A progressive, highly significant reduction between weeks 1 and 4 in crying (hours/24h) was detected ( P 0.0 0 1 ) in treated infants; similarly, there was a significant improvement in time spent sleeping ( P 0.0 0 2 ). By contrast, no significant differences were detected in these variables for the control group. Overall decline in crying was 63% and 23%, respectively, for treated and controls; improvement in sleeping was 11% and 2%. Treated infants also required less parental attention than the untreated group. In conclusion, this preliminary study suggests that Cranial osteopathic treatment can benefit infants with colic; a larger, double-blind study is warranted.
Clive Hayden - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reprint of a preliminary assessment of the impact of Cranial Osteopathy for the relief of infantile colic
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2009Co-Authors: Clive Hayden, Brenda MullingerAbstract:Abstract In this open, controlled, prospective study, 28 infants with colic were randomized to either Cranial osteopathic manipulation or no treatment; all were seen once weekly for 4 weeks. Treatment was according to individual findings, and administered by the same practitioner. Parents recorded time spent crying, sleeping and being held/rocked on a 24-h diary. A progressive, highly significant reduction between weeks 1 and 4 in crying (hours/24h) was detected ( P P
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a preliminary assessment of the impact of Cranial Osteopathy for the relief of infantile colic
Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice, 2006Co-Authors: Clive Hayden, Brenda MullingerAbstract:Summary In this open, controlled, prospective study, 28 infants with colic were randomized to either Cranial osteopathic manipulation or no treatment; all were seen once weekly for 4 weeks. Treatment was according to individual findings, and administered by the same practitioner. Parents recorded time spent crying, sleeping and being held/rocked on a 24-hour diary. A progressive, highly significant reduction between weeks 1 and 4 in crying (hours/24h) was detected ( P 0.0 0 1 ) in treated infants; similarly, there was a significant improvement in time spent sleeping ( P 0.0 0 2 ). By contrast, no significant differences were detected in these variables for the control group. Overall decline in crying was 63% and 23%, respectively, for treated and controls; improvement in sleeping was 11% and 2%. Treated infants also required less parental attention than the untreated group. In conclusion, this preliminary study suggests that Cranial osteopathic treatment can benefit infants with colic; a larger, double-blind study is warranted.
Steve E Hartman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Cranial Osteopathy: its fate seems clear
Chiropractic & Osteopathy, 2006Co-Authors: Steve E HartmanAbstract:Background According to the original model of Cranial Osteopathy, intrinsic rhythmic movements of the human brain cause rhythmic fluctuations of cerebrospinal fluid and specific relational changes among dural membranes, Cranial bones, and the sacrum. Practitioners believe they can palpably modify parameters of this mechanism to a patient's health advantage. Discussion This treatment regime lacks a biologically plausible mechanism, shows no diagnostic reliability, and offers little hope that any direct clinical effect will ever be shown. In spite of almost uniformly negative research findings, "Cranial" methods remain popular with many practitioners and patients. Summary Until outcome studies show that these techniques produce a direct and positive clinical effect, they should be dropped from all academic curricula; insurance companies should stop paying for them; and patients should invest their time, money, and health elsewhere.
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Cranial Osteopathy its fate seems clear
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2006Co-Authors: Steve E HartmanAbstract:Background According to the original model of Cranial Osteopathy, intrinsic rhythmic movements of the human brain cause rhythmic fluctuations of cerebrospinal fluid and specific relational changes among dural membranes, Cranial bones, and the sacrum. Practitioners believe they can palpably modify parameters of this mechanism to a patient's health advantage.
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Craniosacral therapy is not medicine.
Physical Therapy, 2002Co-Authors: Steve E Hartman, James M NortonAbstract:To the Editor: Although the prescientific thinking emblematic of most “alternative” health care may lead infrequently to fortuitous insights, many of these techniques have been tested, have failed, and should be abandoned. For example, we have observed in our laboratory and described in Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine 1 one of the manipulation procedures (craniosacral therapy/Cranial Osteopathy) used by many physical therapists, occupational therapists, osteopathic physicians, and others. Based on our observations, we have drawn several conclusions. We believe that Sutherland's Primary Respiratory Mechanism is invalid. “Cranial” rhythms cannot be generated through organic motility of brains because neurons and glial cells lack the dense arrays of actin and myosin filaments …
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interexaminer reliability and Cranial Osteopathy
2002Co-Authors: Steve E Hartman, James M NortonAbstract:We assess the mechanism purported to underlie the health treatment regime labeled "Cranial Osteopathy" or "craniosacral therapy." We then summarize all published reports on interexaminer reliability associated with this modality, reanalyze some previously published data, and critique Upiedger'si often-cited study. Our own and previously published findings suggest that the proposed mechanism for Cranial Osteopathy is invalid and that interexaminer (and, therefore, diagnostic) reliability is approximately zero. Since no properly randomized, blinded, and placebo-controlled outcome studies have been published, we conclude that Cranial Osteopathy should be removed from curricula of colleges of osteopathic medicine and from osteopathic licensing examinations.
Nicolas Pinsault - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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reliability of diagnosis and clinical efficacy of Cranial Osteopathy a systematic review
PLOS ONE, 2016Co-Authors: Albin Guillaud, Nelly Darbois, Richard Monvoisin, Nicolas PinsaultAbstract:Context In 2010, the World Health Organization released benchmarks for training in Osteopathy in which they considered Cranial Osteopathy as an important osteopathic skill. However, the evidence supporting the reliability of diagnosis and the efficacy of treatment in this field appears scientifically weak and inconsistent. Objectives To identify and critically evaluate the scientific literature dealing with the reliability of diagnosis and the clinical efficacy of techniques and therapeutic strategies used in Cranial Osteopathy. Methods Relevant keywords were used to search the electronic databases MEDLINE, PEDro, OSTMED.DR, Cochrane Library, and in Google Scholar, Journal of American Osteopathy Association and International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine websites. Searches were conducted up to end June 2016 with no date restriction as to when the studies were completed. As a complementary approach we explored the bibliography of included articles and consulted available previous reviews dealing with this topic. Study selection Regarding diagnostic processes in Cranial Osteopathy, we analyzed studies that compared the results obtained by at least two examiners or by the same examiner on at least two occasions. For efficacy studies, only randomized-controlled-trials or crossover-studies were eligible. We excluded articles that were not in English or French, and for which the full-text version was not openly available. We also excluded studies with unsuitable study design, in which there was no clear indication of the use of techniques or therapeutic strategies concerning the Cranial field, looked at combined treatments, used a non-human examiner and subjects or used healthy subjects for efficacy studies. There was no restriction regarding the type of disease. Search Results In our electronic search we found 1280 references concerning reliability of diagnosis studies plus four references via our complementary strategy. Based on the title 18 articles were selected for analysis. Nine were retained after applying our exclusion criteria. Regarding efficacy, we extracted 556 references from the databases plus 14 references through our complementary strategy. Based on the title 46 articles were selected. Thirty two articles were not retained on the grounds of our exclusion criteria. Data extraction and analysis Risk of bias in reliability studies was assessed using a modified version of the quality appraisal tool for studies of diagnostic reliability. The methodological quality of the efficacy studies was assessed using the Cochrane risk of bias tool. Two screeners conducted these analyses. Results For reliability studies, our analysis leads us to conclude that the diagnostic procedures used in Cranial Osteopathy are unreliable in many ways. For efficacy studies, the Cochrane risk of bias tool we used shows that 2 studies had a high risk of bias, 9 were rated as having major doubt regarding risk of bias and 3 had a low risk of bias. In the 3 studies with a low risk of bias alternative interpretations of the results, such as a non-specific effect of treatment, were not considered. Conclusion Our results demonstrate, consistently with those of previous reviews, that methodologically strong evidence on the reliability of diagnostic procedures and the efficacy of techniques and therapeutic strategies in Cranial Osteopathy is almost non-existent.