Osteopathic Manual Treatment Parkinson's Disease and Truncal Dystonia

New York Institute of Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Dystonia; Parkinson Disease; Autonomic Dysreflexia

Treatments: Other: osteopathic manual therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03307161

1130

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will determine if posture and heart rate variability will significantly improve in Parkinsons disease with camptocormia after osteopathic manual treatments dystonia.

Full description

This study will determine if posture and heart rate variability will significantly improve in Parkinsons disease with camptocormia after receiving 8-weekly sessions of the osteopathic manual treatments for truncal flexion dystonia as measured by the distance of the external acoustic meatus from a plumb-line to lateral malleolus, spinal X ray, and heart rate variability.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Parkinson's disease; able to stand for three minutes or more

Exclusion criteria

• severe dementia, moderate or severe hallucinations and psychosis; unable to stand for three minutes

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10 participants in 3 patient groups

Parkinsons fwd posture manual treatment

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subject will receive the intervention, osteopathic manual treatment protocol.

Treatment:

Other: osteopathic manual therapy

Parkinsons forward posture

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects will receive counseling.

Parkinsons without forward posture

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects will receive counseling.