Effects of OMT on Interoception

Come Collaboration

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: sham osteopathic treatment; Other: osteopathic manipulative treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02464475

InterOST

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recent evidence suggested that the anterior insula cortex seems to be the main site of interoception. Several studies showed an association between change in insula function and interoception, bodily perception and consciousness in subjects with chronic pain. Although osteopathic research has been demonstrated to be effective in reducing pain, studies exploring the effect of osteopathy on interoception are lacking. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to explore the extent to which osteopathic treatment could modify interoception parameters both measuring brain functional connectivity and clinical questionnaires.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 30 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chronic low back pain
• written informed consent signed

Exclusion criteria

• congenital disease
• acute pain
• subject below 30 and above 50
• co-morbidities associated with low back pain
• surgical patients
• cardio-vascular, respiratory, gastro-enteric disease
• obese subjects
• diabetics
• dizziness
• subjects into pharmacological prophylaxis
• drug addicted subjects
• subjects undergoing physiotherapy
• subjects with experience in osteopathic treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

OMT

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: osteopathic manipulative treatment

Sham

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: sham osteopathic treatment