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4.4 Conditions necessary for the room
Room temperature should be between 22° and 24°C in order to keep conditions
constant for the test subject
Intensive sunlight falling on the test subject can render results inaccurate and
needs to be filtered by drawn blinds
The test room’s door should be shut in order to avoid disturbing noises that can
have an influence on the measuring results. No telephones or mobiles are
allowed in the room and a „do not disturb“ sign is hung on the outside of the
door.
These precautionary measures should ensure a homogeneous environment for all
test subjects, without any acoustic or thermal disturbances.
4.5 Inclusion and exclusion criteria
The following pre-conditions were observed in order to ensure the most stable
starting situation as possible.
Only people who had never undergone a cranio-sacral-osteopathetic treatment
were used. This ensured an objective reaction on the part of the test subject that
excluded any form of behavioral influence due to expectation.
At the time of the study, test subjects should feel healthy, meaning that they are
in generally good health, suffer from no acute or chronic disease necessitating
regular medication such as febral infections, pneumonia, bladder infection,
diabetes, asthma, known case of high blood pressure, thyroid disorder and so
forth. People with recent post-traumatic wounds were also disqualified.
As the study explored the differences between the CV4 and EV4 techniques,
special dysfunctions in the test subjects were not searched for. This is the goal of
a further study. Test subjects could, however, feel slight aches, which they do
not feel on a regular day, such as a temporary feeling of tenseness in the neck or
in the lower spine.
Margit Grill / 2006