A randomized controlled clinical trial with a blinded observer. A randomized controlled trial. Infants seen by the health visitor nurses, who fulfilled the diagnostic criteria for infantile colic. One group received spinal manipulation for 2 weeks, the other was treated with the drug dimethicone for 2 weeks. From trial day 5 onwards the manipulation group did significantly better that the dimethicone group.
Spinal manipulation is effective in relieving infantile colic.
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