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Impact of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment on Pursuit Eye Movements in Healthy Human Adults

NCT05018390 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 201

Last updated 2023-01-04

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Summary

The idea that osteopathic manipulative treatments (OMTs) should have an impact on the human visual system is not new. Nevertheless, there is a lack of scientific, objective, and experimental evidence. Our goal is to conduct a randomized, double-blind, controlled study to evaluate the effect of OMT on ocular pursuit. Eye movements will be measured by an infra-red video-based eye tracking system with a high spatial and temporal resolution. OMTs will be similar to regular treatments given by osteopaths in their daily practice. We hypothesize that OMT will improve the quality of ocular pursuit.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

OTHER

Osteopathic manipulative treatment

Participants will be positioned on an exam table supine, seated, or decubitus. Osteopathic manipulations will consist in corrective micro-movements applied on synovial joints, on the skull, the teeth and/or visceral structures of the abdomen or the thorax. Local pressures won't exceed a few tens of grams/cm². Practitioners will realize between 15 and 25 technical gestures per participant. Treatment will last 30 minutes (plus or minus 5 minutes) on average. The technical gestures are referenced in the Glossary of Osteopathic Terminology published by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (2017).

OTHER

Sham Osteopathic manipulative treatment

Participants will be positioned on an exam table supine, seated, or decubitus. They will receive 20 gestures that will be standardized and different from actual osteopathic manipulations (but not identifiable as sham manipulations by the participants). The duration of the sham treatment will be the same as the actual treatment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Paris 5 - Rene Descartes

    collaborator OTHER

  • Ecole d'ostéopathie de Paris

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mohamed Gharmaoui, MD · Ecole d'Osteopathie de Paris

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-11-02
Primary Completion
2022-11-10
Completion
2022-12-10

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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