NCT04479384

The Immediate Effect of an Osteopathic Manual Treatment on Blood Pressure in Adults With Hypertension - a Pilot Study.

The Immediate Effect of an Osteopathic Manual Treatment on Blood Pressure in Adults With Hypertension - a Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: International Academy of Osteopathy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study was to determine if 4 manual osteopathic treatment techniques; Spinal manipulation, stretch intrathoracic fascia, sternum recoil and cranial base release has an immediate effect on blood pressure (BP) in hypertensive adults.

Detailed description

30 hypertensive adults (age=50.76±8.66 years, height= 1.75±0.082 m, weight=89.5±19.08 kg), were randomly assigned into one of two equally sized groups; a non- intervention and an intervention group in which patients received 4 manual techniques. Outcome measures included systolic- and diastolic BP pre-treatment and post-treatment 1-,5-, and 10-minutes. Two-way mixed ANOVA was used for statistical analysis.

Conditions

• High Blood Pressure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Manual therapy - osteopathic techniques	* HVLAT if any somatic dysfunction in T1-T5 * Stretch intrathoracic fascia x 3 * Recoil sternum x 3 * Cranial base release, 4 phases

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-01
• Primary completion: 2020-01-30
• Completion: 2020-05-01
• First posted: 2020-07-21
• Last updated: 2020-07-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark