Cranial Osteopathy Techniques as a treatment in a seven-month-old baby with sleep disorder: a case report.

Abstract

Background: The present study aims to describe the case of a seven-month-old baby patient with sleep disorder who underwent treatment with Cranial Osteopathy Techniques (COT). Design: A case report, illustrating how COT may have contributed to sleep quality improvement, is presented. The patient received a four-week treatment. Pre- and postintervention changes were assessed by the filling out of the patient's medical record and feedback sleep information collected by the parents’ filling out of the Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire revised version (BISQ-R-SF), during the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th week of intervention. Results: An improvement in sleep quality was noticed and reported by the parents. BISQ parameters: total nighttime sleep/number of night wakings were found to be inversely covariated (r = -1) and number of night wakings/duration of night waking were found to have a direct proportional covariation (r = 0,9813). The parameters: Primary Respiratory Mechanism (PRM)/total nighttime sleep and PRM/number of night wakings showed a strong negative and strong positive correlation respectively (r = -0,911; r = 0,911). Conclusions: The findings from this single case study provide clinical support for considering COT in future clinical trials.