Impact of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment on Pursuit Eye Movements in Healthy Human Adults

Participants will be positioned on an exam table supine, seated, or decubitus. Osteopathic manipulations will consist in corrective micro-movements applied on synovial joints, on the skull, the teeth and/or visceral structures of the abdomen or the thorax. Local pressures won't exceed a few tens of grams/cm². Practitioners will realize between 15 and 25 technical gestures per participant. Treatment will last 30 minutes (plus or minus 5 minutes) on average. The technical gestures are referenced in the Glossary of Osteopathic Terminology published by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (2017).

Participants will be positioned on an exam table supine, seated, or decubitus. They will receive 20 gestures that will be standardized and different from actual osteopathic manipulations (but not identifiable as sham manipulations by the participants). The duration of the sham treatment will be the same as the actual treatment.