Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03855254
Psychological Context Effects
Psychological Context Effects of Participant Expectation on Pain Pressure Thresholds Following Cervicothoracic HVLA Thrust Manipulation: A Double Blind, Crossover, Randomised Controlled Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 35 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Swansea University · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This study explores how contextual effects in the fore of positive and negative communication can affect the effect of an osteopathic technique on pain pressure thresholds.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | communication type | Positive and negative communication types are the way that the practitioner communicates to the participant about the potential effectiveness of the osteopathic treatment. The control is a neutral communication condition. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-09-01
- Primary completion
- 2018-12-05
- Completion
- 2019-01-10
- First posted
- 2019-02-26
- Last updated
- 2019-02-26
Locations
1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03855254. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.