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A Comparative Study Of Cervical Hysteresis Characteristics After Various Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (Omt) Modalities, Precious Barnes, Francisco Laboy, Lauren Noto-Bell, Veronica Ferencz, Jeffrey Nelson, Michael Kuchera
A Comparative Study Of Cervical Hysteresis Characteristics After Various Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (Omt) Modalities, Precious Barnes, Francisco Laboy, Lauren Noto-Bell, Veronica Ferencz, Jeffrey Nelson, Michael Kuchera
Michael Kuchera
BACKGROUND: Few objective measures have been used to document change in myofascial tissues after OMT.
HYPOTHESIS: Paraspinal tissues associated with cervical somatic dysfunction (SD) will demonstrate quantifiable change in myofascial hysteresis characteristics after a given OMT technique but not after a Sham intervention.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: 240 subjects were palpated for cervical articular SD. A randomly selected intervention (5 OMT techniques or a Sham) was applied to the cervical SD clinically considered to be most severe. A durometer (SA201(®); Sigma Instruments, Cranberry, PA, USA) objectively measured myofascial structures overlying each cervical spinal segment pre- and post- intervention. Using a …