The Effect of Laryngeal Manual Therapy as a Management of Globus

Globus Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Laryngeal Manual Therapy as a Management of Globus(Sensation of a Lump in the Throat )- COMPARATIVE PROSPECTIVE STUDY

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04436146
• Other study ID #: EMC-20-0014
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2022
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: August 2022
• Source: HaEmek Medical Center, Israel
• Contact: Rami Ghanayim, MD
• Phone: 00972543443190
• Email: rami115[@]hotmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of laryngeal manual therapies in the treatment of globus (sensation of a lump in the throat).

Description:

This is a prospective study that include patients who met the inclusion criteria. Data collection includes patients age,gender,clinical manifistations,laboratory parameters and treatment. An endoscopic examination will be done by an expert Otolaryngologist. for each patients we will perform one session of laryngeal manual massage therapy by an expert in the field .

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 70
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• patients more than 18 years old
• male and females
• patients complaning from Globus without an organic cause
• patients who underwent throat endoscopy and was normal.
• Patients who received conventional drug therapy without benefit.
• Globus complaints more than two months .

Exclusion Criteria:

• below 18
• Patients diagnosed with reflux(as a cause to globus)
• Patients who considered at high risk of reflux according to REFLUX SYMPTOM INDEX (RSI) more than 13
• patients who diagnosed with reflux and improved after anti-reflux manegment .
• patients with laryngeal disease/finding that can explain the globus.
• patients with organic cause that can explain the globus .

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Globus

Intervention

Other:
• laryngeal manual therapies
The laryngeal manual therapy incorporates massaging the laryngeal muscles thus reducing excessive tension in the laryngeal and perilaryngeal musculature in patients with globus .

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Haemek Medical Center	Afula

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
HaEmek Medical Center, Israel

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change From symptomatic to asymptomatic patient	after one therapy session we will evaluate the effect of the therapy on the patients .	baseline and week 1