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.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
10
Investigators board certified in osteopathic manual therapy will use their hands in a non-invasive manner to improve dystonia symptoms
New York Institute of Technology
Old Westbury, New York, United States
change in posture
inches of forward head carriage
Time frame: 8 weeks
change in heart rate variability
heart rate changes
Time frame: 8 weeks
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