An interventional study of osteopathic manual therapy in Parkinson Disease, Dystonia and Autonomic Dysreflexia, sponsored by New York Institute of Technology. Completed at 1 site in United States. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-09-23.
Sponsored by New York Institute of Technology · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
This study will determine if posture and heart rate variability will significantly improve in Parkinsons disease with camptocormia after osteopathic manual treatments dystonia.
This study will determine if posture and heart rate variability will significantly improve in Parkinsons disease with camptocormia after receiving 8-weekly sessions of the osteopathic manual treatments for truncal flexion dystonia as measured by the distance of the external acoustic meatus from a plumb-line to lateral malleolus, spinal X ray, and heart rate variability.
Exclusion Criteria:
Subject will receive the intervention, osteopathic manual treatment protocol.
Other: osteopathic manual therapy
Subjects will receive counseling.
Subjects will receive counseling.
Investigators board certified in osteopathic manual therapy will use their hands in a non-invasive manner to improve dystonia symptoms
change in posture
inches of forward head carriage
Time frame: 8 weeks
change in heart rate variability
heart rate changes
Time frame: 8 weeks
Plan to share: No
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