{"id":19081,"date":"1997-12-01T08:42:23","date_gmt":"1997-12-01T15:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.activator.com\/?p=19081"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:33:27","slug":"the-effects-of-spinal-manipulation-on-the-intensity-of-emotional-arousal-in-phobic-subjects-exposed-to-a-threat-stimulus-a-randomized-controlled-double-blind-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activator.com\/the-effects-of-spinal-manipulation-on-the-intensity-of-emotional-arousal-in-phobic-subjects-exposed-to-a-threat-stimulus-a-randomized-controlled-double-blind-clinical-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"The effects of spinal manipulation on the intensity of emotional arousal in phobic subjects exposed to a threat stimulus: a randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<div class=\"\">\n<h4>OBJECTIVE:<\/h4>\n<p>To determine the effect of spinal manipulation upon the intensity of emotional arousal in phobic subjects exposed to a threat stimulus.<\/p>\n<h4>DESIGN:<\/h4>\n<p>Randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial.<\/p>\n<h4>SETTING:<\/h4>\n<p>Community college campus.<\/p>\n<h4>SUBJECTS:<\/h4>\n<p>Eighteen phobic community college student volunteers randomized into treatment and control groups.<\/p>\n<h4>INTERVENTION:<\/h4>\n<p>Visual analog scale (VAS) and pulse rates were obtained in response to the subjects&#8217; viewing their phobogenic stimulus. Spinal manipulation was performed while the subjects experienced emotional responses. Manual muscle testing was utilized to ascertain the associated spinal segments and involved emotion.<\/p>\n<h4>RESULTS:<\/h4>\n<p>Data were analyzed using analysis of variance for a repeated measures experimental design and Least Significant Differences (LSDs) for mean comparisons. Baseline, preintervention and postintervention pulse rates were not statistically different for the control and treatment groups (p = .0807). VAS postintervention mean for the spinal manipulation group was significantly lower than the control means (p = .05) and from its corresponding preintervention mean (p = .001).<\/p>\n<h4>CONCLUSION:<\/h4>\n<p>Spinal manipulation significantly decreased the intensity of emotional arousal reported by phobic subjects. The mechanism for this effect is not known.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a title=\"Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9436145#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J Manipulative Physiol Ther.<\/a> 1997 Nov-Dec;20(9):602-6. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/9436145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 9436145<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Author information:\u00a0Peterson KB. Private practice of chiropractic, Hermiston, OR, USA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script>function getWR360PopupSkin(){return 'light_clean';}<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of spinal manipulation upon the intensity of emotional arousal in phobic subjects exposed to a threat stimulus. DESIGN: Randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial. SETTING: Community college campus. SUBJECTS: Eighteen phobic community college student volunteers randomized into treatment and control groups. INTERVENTION: Visual analog scale (VAS) and pulse rates were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,40,4],"tags":[39,19,193],"class_list":["post-19081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activator-i","category-clinical-trials","category-research","tag-clinical-trial","tag-manipulation","tag-phobia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133761,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19081\/revisions\/133761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}