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has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Osteopathy and Emergency: A Model of Osteopathic Treatment Aimed at Managing the Post-Traumatic Stress—Part 1

  AUTHORS: Luca Collebrusco, Simone Fabri, Antonio Furfaro, Ilaria Tanini, Rita Lombardini, Andrea Rizza, Paolo Zavarella

  KEYWORDS: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment, Earthquake, Quality of Life

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.10 No.7, July 26, 2018

  ABSTRACT: The Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education (EDUCAM) School of Osteopathy, following the earthquake that occurred in Amatrice-Italy on August 24th 2016, promoted the project “Una mano per la salute” [One hand for health], aimed at giving therapeutic support to the population affected by this cataclysm. A review of the literature in the osteopathic field has been performed to identify a more functional approach to quickly relieve the inhabitants from the shock they suffered, and to identify the techniques with greater effectiveness on the stress axis. The protocol of ten chosen techniques will then be verified later in a pilot study, to check whether and how a protocol of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) might play a clinically relevant role in the management of subjects exposed to extraordinary exogenous stress and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) prevention, in addition to the psychological therapy treatments in use today.