Effect of Cranial Osteopathy on Visual Function

Visual Function Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Cranial Osteopathy on Visual Function

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00510562
• Other study ID #: HPD-COM 06200101
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 1, 2007
• Last updated: April 2, 2013
• Start date: October 2001
• Est. completion date: February 2002

Study information

• Verified date: April 2013
• Source: Nova Southeastern University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

It is the purpose of this study to attempt to determine if there is an immediate, measurable change in visual function as a direct result following a session of cranial osteopathic manipulation.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 29
• Est. completion date: February 2002
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Free of active ocular or systemic disease

• Refractive error between six diopters of myopia and five diopters of hyperopia with regular astigmatism of any amount

• Normal best-corrected visual acuity at 20/40 or better

• Normal amplitude of accommodation

• Willing to undergo cranial osteopathic manipulation

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• History of previous closed head trauma or brain injury

• Students from the Nova Southeastern University Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and Optometry

• Prior cranial manipulative treatment/craniosacral therapy

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Visual Function

Intervention

Procedure:
• Cranial osteopathic manipulation
This treatment is performed by exaggerating the motion asymmetry with a minimum of pressure (a few ounces) and holding the position until the motion becomes symmetrical.
• Sham/Placebo
A laying on of hands with no treatment being performed.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Nova Southeastern University Davie Health Center	Ft. Lauderdale	Florida

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Nova Southeastern University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Accommodative system testing Visual acuity testing Stereoacuity testing Vergence system testing Pupillary testing		Immediately after intervention.	No