Brief report of a clinical trial on the duration of middle ear effusion in young children using a standardized osteopathic manipulative medicine protocol.

Abstract

The OMM protocol can be administered with no serious adverse events. Subject recruitment is difficult, and a full-time research assistant at the referring site improves subject referral, enrollment and retention. Accepting only confirmed cases of AOM from trained pediatric providers reduces the patient pool but increases the reliability of the data. (ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT00520039).