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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03579238
• Other study ID #: 1209771-1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: June 25, 2018
• Est. completion date: July 18, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: October 2018
• Source: Western University of Health Sciences
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 20
• Est. completion date: July 18, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: July 15, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy adult that can lie on his or her back on a padded table without moving for 35 minutes.

Exclusion Criteria:

• head trauma within the last six months, seizure disorder, pregnant, brain disease or injury, using beta or alpha blocker medication, unable to lie still for 35 minutes, allergy to the hypoallergenic sticky tape used to attach sensor to forehead

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Doctor Patient Relation

Intervention

Procedure:
• CV4
The occiput of a supine patient is held such that flexion motion is inhibited and extension motion is reinforced.
• touching
the clinician allows the participant's head to rest quietly upon his open palms on a table.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Western University of Health Sciences	Pomona	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Western University of Health Sciences

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Entrainment of still points between clinician and research participant	When one person has a still point it may or may not affect the other person. If it does, then entrainment will have occurred. The clinician's intent is to create a still point in the participant by inhibiting occipital motion. This is measurable using the laser Doppler flow meter. The induction of the still point, which is manifest on the polygraph and in spectroscopy as a distinct diminished amplitude at the .08-1.5 Hz frequency, may entrain the clinician to have a still point as well.	within 1 minute of each other (arbitrary designation)