Influence of Spinal Manipulative Therapy Upon Stroop Task Performance

Logan College of Chiropractic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Motor Response Time

Treatments: Procedure: Spinal manipulative therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00335426

RD0601060018

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine if spinal manipulative therapy can affect cognitive processing as determined by performance on a Stroop task. It is specifically hypothesized that number of errors and response times will decrease as a result of spinal manipulative therapy.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 35 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Normal healthy

Exclusion criteria

No spinal manipulation one week proceeding trial No stimulants or depressants

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)