Effect of Attentional Touch in Stabilometric Assessments

Accademia Italiana Medicina Osteopatica

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postural Balance

Treatments: Other: AUDITORY ATTENTIVE TREATMENT; Other: TOUCH ATTENTIVE TREATMENT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06066047

003

Details and patient eligibility

About

Postural balance has been studied in the literature and ideal body mass distribution has been shown to provide stability to the body in an upright position. The use of stabilometry to assess posture is a standard in clinical practice and medical research. In the literature we find osteopathic treatment evaluated with stabilometry in specific pathological conditions. We will experiment on asymptomatic volunteers how attentive touch is effective compared to non-attentive touch and compared to an untreated group by measuring specific parameters that indicate postural balance.

Full description

Stabilometry measurements will be taken on asymptomatic volunteers before and after several specific treatments, in particular to measure whether the variance in sway speed is reduced after the treatments. The effect of attentional versus non-attentional touch will be compared in the other two groups, in addition to a control group that receives no treatment.

Enrollment: 210 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aymptomatics

Exclusion criteria

• serious illnesses
• balance disorders
• recent trauma (within 2 years) to the lower limbs

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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210 participants in 3 patient groups

TOUCH ATTENTIVE TREATMENT

Experimental group

Description:

15 minutes of osteopathic treatment with operator's touch attention

Treatment:

Other: TOUCH ATTENTIVE TREATMENT

AUDITORY ATTENTIVE TREATMENT

Sham Comparator group

Description:

15 minutes of osteopathic treatment with operator's auditory attention

Treatment:

Other: AUDITORY ATTENTIVE TREATMENT

CONTROL

No Intervention group

Description:

The volunteers lay for 15 minutes in the same environment as the volunteers in the other two groups, without being touched in any way.