Clinical Trial: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Children With Chronic or Recurrent Otitis Media

U.S., June 11 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07639775) titled 'Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment for Children With Chronic or Recurrent Otitis Media' on June 02.

Brief Summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether osteopathic manipulative treatment, or OMT, can reduce the need for tympanostomy tube surgery in children with recurrent or chronic otitis media who have been referred to an Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeon and are being considered for tympanostomy tube placement.

The main question it aims to answer is:

Can a standardized OMT protocol, given once weekly for 4 weeks before the final surgical decision, reduce the rate of tympanostomy tube surgery in pediatric patients wit...