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The purpose of this study was to analyze the efficacy of massage therapy and kinesiotherapy, applied by the parents of hospitalized preterm infants, in the improvement of the biological state, neuromotor activity and other associated factors.


Clinical Trial Description

Premature infants are prematurely deprived of the cutaneous stimulation provided during intrauterine development and of the continuous contact with their parents. It has and adverse effect on both psychological and biological development of the child.

Knowledge of these factors has led many neonatal units to begin to introduce therapeutic massage protocols to facilitating satisfactory neuromotor and anthropometric development of preterm infants.

In this study, premature newborns were assigned to one of two groups:

A: Control Group. B: Massage and kinesiotherapy Group, 15 minutes twice a day. ;


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NCT number NCT03704012
Study type Interventional
Source Universidad de León
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date September 1, 2012
Completion date December 30, 2015

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