Effect of thoracic assistance during respiration on autonomic activity

JRCT ID: jRCT1030220183

Registered date:05/07/2022

Basic Information

• Recruitment status: Pending
• Health condition(s) or Problem(s) studied: therapy
• Date of first enrollment: 05/07/2022
• Target sample size: 20
• Study type: Interventional
• Intervention(s): The subject is placed in a supine position, hip flexed at 90 deg, feet on a box. the AIC assistant puts hands on the subject's sternum and thoracolumbar spine. The subject inhales through the nose and exhales through the mouth. As the subject expires, the assistant lowers the sternum with the left hand, guiding it forward to the left, and pulls up the thoracolumbar spine with the right hand. This is repeated 5 times.

Outcome(s)

• Primary Outcome: parasympathetic nerve activity
• Secondary Outcome: Sympathetic nerve activity, respiratory rate, Stanford Sleepiness Scale

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

• Age minimum: >= 18age old
• Age maximum: <= 25age old
• Gender: Both

Include criteria

a healthy male or female
18 and 25 years old, have given consent.
To be able to breathe through the nose.

Exclude criteria

Have taken the AIC Manual Technique in the past.
had a chest fracture in the past.
taking any medicine.

Related Information

• Primary Sponsor: sasahara jun