NCT04820192

Craniosacral Therapy for Concussion Symptoms

Effects of CranioSacral Therapy Upon Symptoms of Post-Acute Concussion and Post-Concussion Syndrome

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 67 (actual)
• Sponsor: Special Therapies, Inc. · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study investigated the utilization of CranioSacral Therapy (CST) in patients with Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS) and capture patient-reported perceptions of their lived experiences of treatment effect upon their symptoms. The first part part was a 10 year chart review of patients who sought out CST to capture data from the medical records. The second part was an anonymous post treatment survey.

Conditions

• Post-Concussion Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Craniosacral Therapy	The Upledger method of applying both specific and non-specific manual therapy of gentle, sustained, non-invasive stretch to soft tissues of fascia, meninges and osseous attachments. Fluid exchange is also believed to be a resulting result of CST. Treatment is applied to myofascial and osseous sites over the entire body, tending to specific and unique constellation of tissue restrictions and osseous compressions of soft tissue.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-15
• Primary completion: 2019-07-30
• Completion: 2019-07-30
• First posted: 2021-03-29
• Last updated: 2021-03-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States