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Study identifier: NCT05848895 Synced from ClinicalTrials.gov · July 29, 2026
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OPT-IN: Osteopathic Plagiocephaly Treatment for Infants and Neonates

Condition: Plagiocephaly, Nonsynostotic · Plagiocephaly, Positional · Plagiocephaly  ·  Sponsor: Osteopathy's Promise to Children

PhaseNA
Planned participants122
Who can joinAll sexes, 1 Day to 4 Months
Healthy volunteersNo

About this study

The goal of this crossover randomized clinical trial is to assess the effects of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) compared to standard of care repositioning in children diagnosed with positional/deformational plagiocephaly. The main hypothesis is that children who received OMT will show significantly improved anthropometric measures of cranial symmetry over those receiving the current pediatric standard of care of repositioning. This is a two-arm, randomized cross-over clinical trial. With parental consent, pediatric patients (infants \<4 months of age) will be organized into one of two groups: 1. Those who receive OMT with emphasis on osteopathic cranial manipulative medicine (OCMM) to restore cranial symmetry. 2. Those who receive standard care only with repositioning attention from the parents After 8-weeks of being in the first group, each participant will cross-over into the second group (OMT or repositioning) N = 122 subjects diagnosed with deformational plagiocephaly (DP) are to be recruited (to allow for natural attrition and loss to follow up) with the recruitment to continue until 61 patients have been placed in each of the two groups and will cross-over to the respective treatment group (OMT and standard of care repositioning therapy). Timeline: It is projected that to recruit and carry out the assessments and interventions (8-weeks of each group with 12-months of follow-up longitudinally), it will require two years (24-months) from the beginning of the …

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Talk to the study team

Kimberly J Wolf, DO  ·  619-583-7611  ·  kimberly.wolf@the-promise.org

Jessica Martone, PhD, MSW  ·  619-693-6303  ·  jessica.martone@the-promise.org

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Locations (1)

Osteopathic Center San DiegoSan Diego, California, United StatesRecruiting

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