Early osteopathic manipulative treatment to prevent cranial positional deformities: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Cranial positional deformities occur frequently in the first months of life.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in preventing the onset of positional plagiocephaly and brachycephaly at 4 months in at-risk newborns.

Methods: This single-center, randomized, controlled open-label study, with blinded assessment of the endpoints, was carried out at the maternity unit of Montpellier University Hospital (France) between 2019 and 2022.