NCT03854084

Cranial Osteopathic Techniques on the Symptoms of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo

Completed NA Last updated 26 February 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing The cranial osteopathic techniques in Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo in 20 participants. Completed in 23 March 2018.

Timeline

14 December 2017

Primary endpoint
23 March 2018

23 March 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Laiana Sepúlveda de Andrade Mesquita
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	20
Start date	14 December 2017
Primary completion	23 March 2018
Estimated completion	23 March 2018
Sites	1 location across Brazil

Drugs / interventions tested

• The cranial osteopathic techniques
• Control group — full drug profile →

Conditions studied

• Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo — all drugs for Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo →

Sponsor

Laiana Sepúlveda de Andrade Mesquita

Who can join

Eligibility, female only, with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a type of peripheral vertigo characterized by the accumulation of otoliths debris, which are particles resulted from the condensation of endolymph in the inner ducts of semicircular canals (duct lithiasis or canalithiasis). In order to detect the BPPV, a simple test is utilized. The Dix-Hallpike test consists in lay the individual in a quick change in the position of the head. The maneuver is performed, essentially, towards the side in which the patient alleges dizziness in the course of the change in the position of the head. If the individual report vertigo related or no to nystagmus, the test is considered as positive . The osteopathy is a science, which has specific methods of diagnosis and treatment, and has begun to be developed by the physician Andrew Taylor Still at the end of 19th century, which aim is to rebalance the activities of the organism. Accord to the osteopathy science, all the physiological structures in the organism integrating and requires functional and structural harmonization in order to improve the health of the whole body. The main objective of the treatment is to obtain the intertissue mobility, which is considered by osteopathy as a somatic dysfunction, when it is restricted. Samutt confirms that cranial dysfunction of the temporal bones in internal/external rotation may modify the orientation of the semicircular canals, provoking vertigo. Liem propose that the mobilization of the eyeball may be a sensory stimulus of the vestibulo-ocular pathways. For him, maneuvers to the eyeball assists to balance the tonus of extraocular muscles and creates fascial influences on the optic nerve and the oculomotor, and, thus, stimulates the vestibular nuclei. It also suggests that the tension of the cerebellar tentorium and the mobilization of the temporal bones have effects on the structures that composes the vestibule. Thereby, the present work investigated the effect of the cranial osteopathic techniques on the Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.