Electroencephalography Activity in Individuals With Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain After Cranial Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment
WithdrawnNot applicableNCT02111382
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Osteopathic medicine is based on a diagnostic and therapeutic system to treat tissue mobility/ motility dysfunctions in general, using different approaches (depending on the target tissue) known as osteopathic manipulative treatment. Among all the available techniques those ones addressed to the cranial field are most questioned because of the lack of scientific evidence; but the compression of the 4th ventricle technique has been largely studied in clinical trials. Studies have shown that the technique may affect both central and autonomous nervous system, modulating some reflexes (Traube-Hering baro signal), and modifying brain cortex electrical activity through central sensitization in subjects with chronic low back pain. Thus, investigators hypothesize that the compression of the 4th ventricle may modulate peak alpha frequency (electroencephalographic assessment) and promote physical relaxation in subjects in vigil.
Study details
- Official title
- Electroencephalography Activity in Individuals With Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain After Cranial Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment: Study Protocol of a Randomized, Controlled Crossover Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: CV4 Cranial (4th ventricle technique) Osteopathic Manipulative
- Other: CV4 (4th ventricle technique) manual therapy sham technique
- Sponsor
- University of Brasilia
- Collaborators
- University Hospital of BrasÃlia
- Start date
- 2018-01-31
- Primary completion
- 2018-06-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Participants over 18 years old with self-reported nonspecific chronic low back pain will be recruited Exclusion Criteria: * Participants suffering from secondary chronic low back pain, * fever, chills, sweating, weight loss, asthenia, anorexia; * cardiovascular and respiratory symptoms such as chest pain, dyspnea and cough; * headache, dizziness, lightheadedness, fainting, tremors, dysarthria and aphasia; * participants who underwent surgery on the spine; * diagnosis of any neurological, cardiac, respiratory and rheumatic disease; * regular use of drugs with effects on the central nervous system.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02111382