NCT05488158

Assessing the Impact of OMT on Physician Pain

Completed NA Last updated 4 August 2022

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Osteopathic manipulation in Pain in 17 participants. Completed in 1 June 2022.

Timeline

22 October 2020

Primary endpoint
1 February 2022

1 June 2022

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Fort Wayne Medical Education Program
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	non randomized
Design	single group
Masking	none
Primary purpose	supportive care
Enrollment	17
Start date	22 October 2020
Primary completion	1 February 2022
Estimated completion	1 June 2022
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Osteopathic manipulation

Conditions studied

• Pain — all drugs for Pain →

Sponsor

Fort Wayne Medical Education Program

Who can join

18 and older, any sex, with Pain. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy/Treatments (OMT) are a non-pharmacologic option for treating patients' pain. As the opioid crisis has developed, the requests for OMT have grown in consequence. This has been associated with a recent focus of opioid addiction and overdose death concerns among physicians and patients. However, the physical toll that OMT takes on the physicians providing the treatments has yet to be robustly investigated. Due to the longitudinal nature of chronic pain, OMT delivery becomes a substantial commitment for the physician offering OMT as an option, especially if the intent is to reduce opioid utilization. Many of the patients treated in our clinic have obesity as a co-morbidity to their chronic pain. The size differential between the patient and provider commonly results in multiple techniques being required to treat the patient's somatic dysfunction, which equates to increased exertion by the provider for each new pain patient. Anecdotal reports from the providers have described a decreased motivation to offer OMT to pain patients due to their own soreness from treating the patients they already have on their panel. Furthermore, the physicians are rarely able to take the time away from their practice during business hours to get their own physical health needs addressed in a timely manner.

This study looked at the participants' pain levels from offering OMT to their patients and their motivation to offer OMT as a non-pharmacological intervention for treating pain. The participants will have protected time built into their schedule where a board certified doctor of osteopathy will treat them every two weeks. Over the study's course, the participants' pain levels and motivation to offer OMT to their patients was assessed. Objective outcome measures came from the participant's patient panel reports. Changes in the number of OMT office visits they provide, the number of systems they treated and the morphine equivalents they prescribed was tracked. The project's hypothesis followed that purposefully attending to the participant's physical health will improve their motivation to offer OMT, reduce their pain and reduce their opioid prescribing.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.