The Osteopathic treatment of adults who experienced war as children
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- The Osteopathic treatment of adults who experienced war as children
- Title
- The Osteopathic treatment of adults who experienced war as children
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Abstract
The primary objective of this research was to discover if Global Osteopathic treatment combined with treatment using the Endocranial Concept developed by Philippe Druelle DO, following the methodology of College d’Etudes Osteopathiques (CEO) of Montreal, Canada, would improve quality of life and cerebral processing in adults who experienced war related trauma in childhood. It was hypothesized that Endocranial treatment would have a positive effect on the anterior cingulate cortex and cortico-limbic structures most often affected by trauma exposure. Outcome measures were derived from the SF-36 Health survey, the World Health Organization Quality of Life bref (WHOQOL-bref), the Counting Stroop test (cStroop), the Emotional Counting Stroop test (ecStroop), and Osteopathic endocranial assessment results.
This research was conducted in Zagreb, Croatia. The target population consisted of young adults who lived in Croatia at some point during the Croatian War of Independence (1991-1995). They were 3 to 14 years of age during that four-year time period and met the Inclusion/Exclusion and Exposure to War criteria.
This was a chronological experimental study with one subject group. The results of two pre-treatment control trials were compared with two post treatment experimental trials. Twenty-five Subjects were given 6 to 8 treatments over 9 weeks and were a mixed gender group between 21 and 34 years old.
Upon completion of the treatment phase a seven point Endocranial treatment criteria was used to screen subjects. Subjects who achieve treatment goals that enabled endocranial treatment were placed in the Global Osteopathic and Endocranial Subgroup (N=14). Subjects who were treated but did not achieve milestones for endocranial treatment were placed in the Global Osteopathic sub-group (N=11). Test results for the Global Osteopathic and Endocranial treatment group were examined to support or deny the hypothesis. Test results for the two sub-groups were used as a basis for comparison in so far as they informed the hypothesis.
SF-36 and WHOQOL-bref scores were analyzed using Wilcoxon, Friedman, ANOVA on SPSS 15.0 program. The Global Osteopathic and Endocranial treatment group showed statistically significant improvement in SF-36 measures in 4 out of 8 domains with one marginal outcome. Trends in all objective measures revealed that endocranial vitality and mobility were predicators for better objective test results in the majority of test domains.
An analysis of variance was conducted to see if the Stroop test reaction times improved after Global Osteopathic and Endocranial treatment. No significance was found between subgroup reaction times in Stroop test analysis. Both groups improved. Further analysis demonstrated that significantly more subjects who receive Global Osteopathic and Endocranial treatment improved their reaction times faster overall in Emotional Stroop Interference (P=.04) and Counting Stroop Neutral (P=.03), than subjects who receive Global Osteopathic treatment. An unexplained divergence of reaction time scores occurred between subgroups directly after completion of treatment that begs further study. (see discussion) - presented at
- Canadian College of Osteopathy
- Date Accepted
- 2012
- Date Submitted
- 9.2.2013 20:43:54
- Type
- osteo_thesis
- Language
- English
- Number of pages
- 240
- Submitted by:
- 184
- Pub-Identifier
- 15305
- Inst-Identifier
- 1130
- Keywords
- Osteopathic treatment, endocranial, stroop test, SF-36, WHOQOL, war children, trauma exposure
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- 1
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“The Osteopathic treatment of adults who experienced war as children”, Osteopathic Research Web, accessed May 1, 2024, https://www.osteopathicresearch.com/s/orw/item/1718