Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and Kinetics

Michigan State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cervical Spine

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01376687

OMMGLOVE

Details and patient eligibility

About

Back pain affects the majority of the population at some time. Currently there are no published and scientifically accepted objective measures to support manual medicine diagnostic and treatment techniques for back pain. The purpose of this project is to collect and evaluate objective (pressure and motion) data from standard clinical diagnostic tests.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• HEalthy and no pain in cervical spine
• Pain of 3 or greater in cervical spine

Exclusion criteria

• pain of less than 3 in the cervical spine region
• pregnant

Trial design

41 participants in 2 patient groups

Pain free

Description:

No pain in the cervical spine

Pain

Description:

Pain of 3 or greater on a VAS scale for the cervical spine