Evaluation of The Acute Effects of Connective Tissue Manipulation on The Autonomic Nervous System for Healthy Humans

In our study we aimed to evaluate the acute effect of one-session connective tissue manipulation on autonomic nervous system. Sixty healthy women older than eighteen years were enrolled in this study and they were randomly divided into two groups. A single connective tissue manipulation was applied to the first group, while a single plasebo connective tissue manipulation was applied to the second group and the acute effect of the applications on the autonomic nervous system were observed. Heart rate, blood pressure, respiration frequency and peripheral skin temperature were considered as autonomic measurement parameters. The statistical analyses showed that neither connective tissue manipulation, nor plasebo connective tissue manipulation procedures revealed any acute effect on autonomic nervous system (p 0,05). It was shown that the one-session connective tissue manipulation application was insufficient to reveal any acute effect on autonomic nervous system.