Status:

COMPLETED

By Potentially Adding a Century Old Therapeutic Measure to Pain Treatment Regimens Called Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment, Can Help Decrease Muscle and Bone Pain and the Usage of Opioid Pain Medication.

Lead Sponsor:

Skagit Regional Health

Collaborating Sponsors:

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

University of Eastern Finland

Conditions:

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-65 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT) has been used to successfully treat patients for over a hundred years. Even though there have been many subjective clinical results, there is still little rese...

Detailed Description

Subjects will randomly choose a number 1-3. The number correlates to one of three treatment techniques ME, CS, or HVLA. Prior to treatment subjects will be analyzed with the Ultralign SA201 to the cer...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • The subjects that will be sought for this study will be male or female subjects from the ages of 18-65 years. Because this is a one session study, where a person lives does not preclude them from participating in this study.
  • Healthy Volunteers are the volunteers that may present with or without a cervical somatic dysfunction, having a cervical somatic dysfunction is a common biomechanical occurrence and does not constitute a person as being unhealthy.

Exclusion

  • Subjects younger than age 18 or over the age of 65 years.
  • History of abnormal findings on brain or cervical CT/MRI
  • History of diagnosis of symptomatic osteoarthritis of the cervical spine (as documented in previous imaging studies) or as evidenced by palpation and provocative tests during structural exam
  • Significant scoliosis that contributes to back or neck pain diagnosed by structural exam
  • Current diagnosis or history of depression, except for mild situational depression specifically diagnosed as associated with chronic headaches
  • Significant psychiatric disorders present or past including, but not limited to: borderline personality, bipolar disorder or schizophrenia
  • History of systemic disease which includes, but is not limited to: rheumatoid arthritis, Marfan's syndrome, fibromyalgia, Ehler-Danlos Syndrome or other connective tissue disease, lupus or ankylosing spondylitis
  • History of neoplastic disease
  • Involvement in current litigation involving the neuromusculoskeletal syndrome

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

June 1 2011

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 30 2012

Estimated Enrollment :

213 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT06930196

Start Date

June 1 2011

End Date

June 30 2012

Last Update

April 16 2025

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Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19131