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Table 1 Items included in the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) checklist: information to include when describing an intervention. Full version of checklist provides space for authors and reviewers to give location of the information

From: The effect of a six-week osteopathic visceral manipulation in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain and functional constipation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Item no.

Item

Brief name

 1

OVM

Why

 2

Visceral osteopathy is described as a manual treatment performed directly on the viscera with the goal to normalize the mobility dysfunction of the organ and try to eliminate fascial restrictions and relax the visceral spasms.

What

 3

As previously described, the treatment with OVM is manual therapy, because of this it is performed only with the hands.

 4

Manual techniques will be performed in the small and large intestine of the volunteers. At the beginning of each session, individuals will be assessed and points of spasms of the visceral musculature of the small and large intestine or fascial restriction will be located. All the techniques are described in the visceral osteopathy book [31].

Who provided

 5

The physiotherapist who will perform the treatment is graduated in physiotherapy for 13 years and she has > 10 years of experience in this type of treatment. She is an osteopath certified by Madrid’s Osteopathy School (Escuela de Osteopatía de Madrid).

How

 6

Six individual weekly sessions of 15 min each will be carried out.

Where

 7

The sessions will be carried out in a private clinic in the city of Rondonópolis/MT.

When and how long

 8

The participants will receive six individual weekly sessions. The duration will be 15 min for each session.

Tailoring

 9

At the beginning of each session, the volunteers will be evaluated according to visceral spasms in the large and small intestine and fascial restriction for manual treatment according to the need of each patient. After the evaluation, the patients will be treated with techniques of visceral osteopathy in the large and small intestine to normalize the visceral musculature spasms.

Modifications

 10a

How well

 11

Osteopaths are trained to identify visceral spams and/or fascial restriction when they do osteopathy’s formation. We try to propose a treatment respecting the individuality of the patients and seeking to reproduce better the clinical practice. As previously proposed by Panagoupols et al. [11] and Tamer et al. [16]).

 12a

  1. aIf a checklist is completed for a protocol, these items are not relevant to protocol and cannot be described until the study is complete