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Influence of an osteopathic manipulative intervention on cerebral blood velocity changes: do we have the whole story to appropriately interpret the data?

By JOM Staff

01.15.22

We read with interest the article by Roberts et al. that was recently published in this journal [1]. The authors performed a randomized, single-blinded, two-period, two-treatment crossover study to evaluate the impact of the occipitoatlantal decompression, compared to a sham manipulation, on intracranial and extracranial blood velocity responses in young healthy participants. The authors [1] reported increased end-diastolic velocity in the internal carotid artery (ICA), vertebral artery (VA), and middle cerebral artery (MCA) following the intervention but not after the sham treatment.