Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Effects on High Frequency Parameters in Healthy Subjects

European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Subject; Heart Rate Variability

Treatments: Other: Osteopathic manipulative treatment; Other: CONTROL; Other: SHAM

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01908920

HRVOST

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present study is to determine the extend to which osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) is effective on a sample of healthy subjects in changing high frequency (HF) parameters.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age between 18 and 45;
• No chronic symptomatology;
• No acute symptomatology during the last 72 hours before intervention;
• No pathologies

Exclusion criteria

• Age below 18 or over 45;
• Pregnancy;
• Menopause;
• Abuse of alcool during the last 48 hours;
• Chronic pain;
• Acute pain during the last 72 hours;
• Conclamate pathologies;
• Use of drugs during the last 72 hours ;
• Use of ortothic devices during the last 3 months;
• Any type of surgery;
• Osteopathic treatment during the last 3 months.

Trial design

60 participants in 3 patient groups

OMT

Other group

Description:

Each osteopathic session is based on structural evaluation and treatment using indirect techniques.

Treatment:

Other: Osteopathic manipulative treatment

SHAM

Other group

Description:

Sham therapy was administered with subjects lying supine on the treatment table while the operator used light manual contact to "treat" the subject. A pre-determined protocol has been used. The practitioner's attention was distracted by subtracting calculation in silence.

Treatment:

Other: SHAM

CONTROL

Other group

Description:

No intervention

Treatment:

Other: CONTROL