Specificity of cranial cutaneous manipulations in modulating autonomic nervous system responses and physiological oscillations: A controlled study.

ABSTRACT: Significant autonomic nervous system responses to a specific osteopathic intervention, the cranial vault hold (CVH), have recently been demonstrated in forehead skin blood volume changes, heart rate, and respiration frequencies. The specificity of the CVH-intervention-related autonomic responses yet requires differentiation. Thus, we compared autonomic responses to CVH with responses to compression of the fourth ventricle (CV4) and to two corresponding SHAM conditions. Analysis of frequencies and amplitudes for changes in skin blood volume and respiration in low (LF; 0.05-0.12 Hz), intermediate (IM; 0.12-0.18 Hz), and high (HF; 0.18-0.4 Hz) frequency bands, and metrics of heartrate variability revealed significant decreases in LF range (from 0.12 to 0.10 Hz), increased LF and decreased IM

SUBMITTER: Keller M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11867383 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature