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Fourth Ventricle Compression (CV4) as a Method for Stress Management

Journal: Ergonomics for Design and Innovation Date: 2022/07, (online 2022/07/07):Pages: 1215-1225, type of study: clinical trial

Full text    (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-94277-9_103#citeas)

Keywords:

stress management [5]
heart rate variability [38]
autonomic nervous system [94]
CV-4 [5]
fourth ventricular compression [1]
cranio-sacral osteopathy [158]
clinical trial [612]

Abstract:

Apart from stressful interpersonal and societal life situations, poorly designed learning environment and lack of knowledge of ergonomics increase the vulnerability of students to psychosomatic illnesses. Heart rate variability (HRV) has been used to assess emotional regulation capacity as a marker of stress and resilience. HRV is a window to the autonomic nervous regulation and refers to the physiological variation in the interval between consecutive heart beats. Fourth ventricular compression (CV4) is a commonly practiced cranial osteopathic maneuver which has been found to bring about important physiological effects. This study assesses the CV4 technique for its immediate effects on HRV parameters and thereby, its potential usefulness in stress management. In this study 25 male osteopathy students of Sri Sri University in the age group of 18–30 were voluntarily recruited. HRV parameters before and after the maneuver were recorded using Polar V800 Heart rate monitor and appropriate comparison was done using SPSS software. After the intervention, significant increases in all the time domain parameters viz. SDNN, RMSSD, NN50, pNN50 as well as logarithmic power of high frequency were noticed. This points towards a substantial shift brought by CV4 maneuver in the overall autonomic nervous balance towards parasympathetic mode. This study shows that CV4 brings about an acute parasympathetically dominated relaxation response in young adults and thus can potentially help in short-term stress management.


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