Experimental study of the effect of osteopathic treatment of the upper airway about the respiratory functions and the ability to concentrate of the asthmatic child

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Title
Experimental study of the effect of osteopathic treatment of the upper airway about the respiratory functions and the ability to concentrate of the asthmatic child
Title
Estudio experimental del efecto de un tratamiento osteopático enfocado a la vía aérea superior sobre la función respiratoria y la capacidad de concentración del niño asmático
Author(s)
Cuerda García-Junceda, Maria Teresa
Abstract
Nasal breathing promotes lung function and brain thermoregulation through the nasal mucosa physiology. In the pathology of asthma, the most common chronic disease in children, respiratory mucosa has a chronic inflammation that affects the respiratory function. Also, it is observed that asthmatic people tend to present oral breathing and learning problems.
The research is based on the importance of the nasal cavity in breathing and its close relationship with the Reciprocal Tension Membranes by the crest galli of the ethmoides. The aim of this research is to observe the effects on respiratory function and on the concentration ability of oral breathing asthmatic children after an osteopathic protocol aimed to the nasal cavity.
Two sessions of osteopathy with an interval of fifteen days were conducted. In each session, we executed an osteopathic treatment versus a placebo treatment. The osteopathic treatment consisted of optimizing the dynamics of the nasal cavity through the reciprocal tension membranes using as fulcrums the sacrum, the skull base, the sphenobasilar synchondrosis, the front-nasal-maxillo-zygomatic complex and the front-ethmoid suture. Results were analyzed in nasal inspiratory peak flow, Tiffeneau´s coefficient and the perception differences test immediately before and immediately after each treatment. No statistically significant results were obtained to accept or refute this hypothesis
Abstract
La respiracion nasal favorece el funcionamiento pulmonar y la termorregulacion del cerebro gracias a la fisiologia de la mucosa nasal. En la patologia del asma, la enfermedad cronica mas comun en ninos, la mucosa respiratoria presenta una inflamacion cronica que altera la funcion respiratoria. Asimismo, se observa que las personas asmaticas tienen una tendencia a presentar una respiracion oral y problemas de aprendizaje.
Basandonos en la importancia de la cavidad nasal en la respiracion y su relacion tan estrecha con las Membranas de Tension Reciproca a nivel de la cresta galli del etmoides, el objetivo de esta investigacion es observar los cambios en la funcion respiratoria y la capacidad de concentracion de ninos asmaticos respiradores orales despues de un protocolo de osteopatia dirigido a la cavidad nasal.
Se realizaron dos sesiones de osteopatia con un intervalo de quince dias. En cada una de ellas se realizo un tratamiento de osteopatia versus un tratamiento placebo. El tratamiento de osteopatia consistio en optimizar la dinamica de la cavidad nasal a traves de las Membranas de Tension Reciproca utilizando como fulcros el sacro, la base del craneo, la sincondrosis esfenobasilar, el complejo fronto-naso-maxilocigomatico y la sutura fronto-etmoidal. Se analizaron los resultados en el flujo maximo inspiratorio nasal, la relacion de Tiffeneau y el Test de Percepcion de Diferencias inmediatamente antes e inmediatamente despues de cada tratamiento. No se obtuvieron resultados estadisticamente significativos para aceptar o refutar esta hipotesis.
presented at
Escola de Osteopatia de Barcelona (EOB)
Date Accepted
2012
Date Submitted
16.9.2013 10:31:05
Type
osteo_thesis
Language
Spanish
Number of pages
112
Submitted by:
84
Pub-Identifier
15331
Inst-Identifier
1049
Keywords
asthma, child, airway, respiration
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maria_teresa_cuerda.pdf.pdf
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maria_teresa_cuerda.pdf.pdf

Cuerda García-Junceda, Maria Teresa, “Experimental study of the effect of osteopathic treatment of the upper airway about the respiratory functions and the ability to concentrate of the asthmatic child”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed April 30, 2025, https://www.osteopathic-research.org/s/orw/item/2381