60
Participants
Start Date
October 1, 2016
Primary Completion Date
January 30, 2017
Study Completion Date
February 1, 2017
Visceral manipulation
Participants will be instructed to lie down comfortably on a stretcher in the supine position, with lower limbs flexed and abdomen exposed, and the physiotherapist positioned to the right side of the patient. The therapeutic intervention will be began with the left hand of the physiotherapist in contact with the lower region of the stomach, to which a force will be applied so that the organ was moved in an upper and lateral left direction while the right hand controlled and directed the knees of the patient to the right side until the moment when the physiotherapist notice an increase in tension in the stomach region. For the liver manipulation, the same procedures will be followed, however, with contact in the right epigastric region and the knees directed to the left side. The same position will be maintained for each organ treated until the physiotherapist could feel, through touch, a decrease in the tension of the viscera. The mean treatment time will 5 minutes.
Control group (CG)
The CG will be received placebo treatment. In the placebo treatment, the therapist should place the hands over the navel region without exerting any local tension for 1 minute.
Andréia Cristina de Oliveira Silva
UNKNOWN
Claudia Santos Oliveira
UNKNOWN
Daniela Aparecida Biasotto-Gonzalez
UNKNOWN
Marco Antônio Fumagalli
UNKNOWN
Cid André Fidelis de Paula Gomes
UNKNOWN
University of Nove de Julho
OTHER