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The effect of cranial-sacral membrane and fluid balance technique on the autonomic nervous system using pulse rate, breathing frequency and blood pressure as indicators

Journal: Unpublished MSc thesis Wiener Schule für Osteopathie, Date: 2007/03, Pages: 82, type of study: controlled clinical trial

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Keywords:

ANS [354]
autonomic nervous system [94]
blood pressure regulation [1]
breathing frequency [1]
cranial membrane [3]
fluid balance technique [1]
cranio-sacral osteopathy [158]
heart rate [63]
controlled clinical trial [283]
WSO [433]

Abstract:

Objectives: The hypothesis of this study intends to show that one osteopathic technique is able to balance the ANS, supporting a shift of the sympathetic control into a parasympathetic control. The influence of Osteopathy on the autonomic nervous system (ANS) gives an explanation of its influence on health and disease. Today science as well as the common sense are aware of the role of stress in upsetting the balance of health. Osteopathy should open the skill to directly interpret and influence autonomic activity using perceptual and palpatory skills. Design: There is no method to measure the activity of the ANS. Therefore the three most common physiological indices, the heart rate, respiratory frequency and blood pressure, are used to show changes in the activity of the ANS. An osteopathic treatment group and a control group in the state of rest were measured in supine position on arrival (0 minutes), after 5 minutes of rest, after 10 minutes of rest, after the osteopathic treatment or rest of another 5 minutes (after 15 minutes) and after 20 minutes. The osteopathic treatment was applied only between the 10th and 15th minute of the experiment. Comparison of the results between the group of osteopathic treatment and the group of rest in this time should demonstrate the effect of the cranial-sacral membrane and fluid balance technique. Subjects: 70 people volunteered as subjects for the following study. The group consisted of 27 men and 43 women between the age of 20 and 67 without clinical pathology of heart, lung and blood pressure. The results of 50 individuals with the impact of osteopathic treatment and 20 subjects observed in the state of rest as control group are presented. Results: A significant decrease of -18,8% in the mean value of the heart rate was caused by the osteopathic treatment compared to a decrease of -5,6% mean in the control group with a difference of 13,2% within 20 minutes. The most significant decrease could be observed within the five minutes of treatment. The decrease of the breathing frequency during twenty minutes in the group of osteopathic treatment is with -24,7% double as high as the decrease of the breathing frequency in the group of rest with -11,9%. In comparison with the results of the rest group slightly increasing about 2,3% between the 10th and 15th minute the osteopathic treatment group significantly decreases their breathing frequency during the treatment about -15,2% with a total difference of 17,5%. The results of blood pressure regulation shows a decrease of the systolic mean value of the osteopathic treatment subjects with a difference of 9,8% and a decrease of the diastolic mean value with a difference of 5,8% in comparison with the group of rest within 20 minutes. Between the 10th and 15th minute the systolic and diastolic mean values of the rest group raise while the ones of the osteopathic treatment group decrease resulting in a significant difference of 16,8% in the systolic mean value and of 10,3% in the diastolic mean value. Conclusions: The studies findings point out clearly that there is an effect of the applied osteopathic technique balancing the ANS indicating a shift from the sympathetic to parasympathetic control.


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