The effect of cranial-sacral membrane and fluid balance technique on the autonomic nervous system using pulse rate, breathing frequency and blood pressure as indicators.
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The effect of cranial-sacral membrane and fluid
balance technique on the autonomic nervous
system using pulse rate, breathing frequency
and blood pressure as indicators. - Author(s)
- Schneider Roman
- Abstract
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Objectives: The hypothesis of this study intends to show that one osteopathic
technique is able to balance the ANS, supporting a shift of the sympathetic control
into a parasympathetic control. The influence of Osteopathy on the autonomic
nervous system (ANS) gives an explanation of its influence on health and disease.
Today science as well as the common sense are aware of the role of stress in
upsetting the balance of health. Osteopathy should open the skill to directly interpret
and influence autonomic activity using perceptual and palpatory skills.
Design: There is no method to measure the activity of the ANS. Therefore the three
most common physiological indices, the heart rate, respiratory frequency and blood
pressure, are used to show changes in the activity of the ANS.
An osteopathic treatment group and a control group in the state of rest were
measured in supine position on arrival (0 minutes), after 5 minutes of rest, after 10
minutes of rest, after the osteopathic treatment or rest of another 5 minutes (after 15
minutes) and after 20 minutes.
The osteopathic treatment was applied only between the 10th and 15th minute of the
experiment. Comparison of the results between the group of osteopathic treatment
and the group of rest in this time should demonstrate the effect of the cranial-sacral
membrane and fluid balance technique.
Subjects: 70 people volunteered as subjects for the following study. The group
consisted of 27 men and 43 women between the age of 20 and 67 without clinical
pathology of heart, lung and blood pressure. The results of 50 individuals with the
impact of osteopathic treatment and 20 subjects observed in the state of rest as
control group are presented.
Results: A significant decrease of -18,8% in the mean value of the heart rate was
caused by the osteopathic treatment compared to a decrease of -5,6% mean in the
control group with a difference of 13,2% within 20 minutes. The most significant
decrease could be observed within the five minutes of treatment.
The decrease of the breathing frequency during twenty minutes in the group of
osteopathic treatment is with -24,7% double as high as the decrease of the breathing
frequency in the group of rest with
-11,9%. In comparison with the results of the rest group slightly increasing about
2,3% between the 10th and 15th minute the osteopathic treatment group significantly
decreases their breathing frequency during the treatment about -15,2% with a total
difference of 17,5%.
The results of blood pressure regulation shows a decrease of the systolic mean
value of the osteopathic treatment subjects with a difference of 9,8% and a decrease
of the diastolic mean value with a difference of 5,8% in comparison with the group of
rest within 20 minutes. Between the 10th and 15th minute the systolic and diastolic
mean values of the rest group raise while the ones of the osteopathic treatment
group decrease resulting in a significant difference of 16,8% in the systolic mean
value and of 10,3% in the diastolic mean value.
Conclusions: The studies findings point out clearly that there is an effect of the
applied osteopathic technique balancing the ANS indicating a shift from the
sympathetic to parasympathetic control.
Key words: ANS, heart rate, breathing frequency, blood pressure regulation, cranial
membrane and fluid balance technique - presented at
- Wiener Schule für Osteopathie
- Date Accepted
- 2007
- Date Submitted
- 1.3.2007 00:00:00
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Submitted by:
- 62
- Pub-Identifier
- 12318
- Inst-Identifier
- 781
- Keywords
- Fluid Technique,Autonomic Nervous System
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Schneider Roman, “The effect of cranial-sacral membrane and fluid balance technique on the autonomic nervous system using pulse rate, breathing frequency and blood pressure as indicators.”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed October 31, 2025, https://www.osteopathicresearch.org/s/orw/item/3061