Entrainment Between Clinician and Patient During Palpation

Doctor Patient Relation Clinical Trial

Official title: Entrainment Interaction Between Physician and Patient During Palpation of the Cranium

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will assess the physiological interaction between the palpating clinician and a research participant using a laser Doppler flow meter to detect changes in blood flow parameters.

Clinical Trial Description

Research participants will lie on their backs on a soft table while a licensed physician, with special training in osteopathic palpation and manipulation approaches, touches, and administers a slight inhibition of occipital bone motion for five minutes per stage. Both will have a non invasive skin sensor (probe), called a laser Doppler flow meter, attached to their forehead to detect changes in subcutaneous blood flow velocity. The signal from the device will be augmented and transmitted for display onto a digital polygraph recorder. Then, using Fourier transformation software, the signal will be displayed as a graph for spectral analysis to determine the effect on specific wave forms related to autonomic activity. The interaction between the two individuals will be assessed for evidence of entrainment phenomenon, i.e., the influence of one biorhythm upon another. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Doctor Patient Relation

• NCT number: NCT03579238
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Western University of Health Sciences
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 25, 2018
• Completion date: July 18, 2018