Author(s)

Luca Collebrusco^1,2, Simone Fabri², Antonio Furfaro², Ilaria Tanini², Rita Lombardini³, Andrea Rizza², Paolo Zavarella²

¹Rehabilitation Unit, National Health Service of Umbria, Perugia, Italy.
²Research Department CROMON, EDUCAM School, Rome, Italy.
³Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.

The Complementary and Alternative Medicine Education (EDUCAM) School of Osteopathy, following the earthquake that occurred in Amatrice-Italy on August 24^th 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.

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

Collebrusco, L. , Fabri, S. , Furfaro, A. , Tanini, I. , Lombardini, R. , Rizza, A. and Zavarella, P. (2018) Osteopathy and Emergency: A Model of Osteopathic Treatment Aimed at Managing the Post-Traumatic Stress—Part 1. Health, 10, 998-1005. doi: 10.4236/health.2018.107074.