ArticleFrontiers in psychology2021
Osteopathy and Mental Health: An Embodied, Predictive, and Interoceptive Framework.
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- Pooled it
- Autonomic correlates of osteopathic manipulative treatment on facial functional mapping: an innovative approach based on thermal imaging.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Applying an osteopathic intervention to improve mild to moderate mental health symptoms: a mixed-methods feasibility randomised trial.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2024Trial
- Effect of osteopathic techniques on human resting muscle tone in healthy subjects using myotonometry: a factorial randomized trial.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- The use of high-velocity, low-amplitude techniques in paediatric osteopathic care: two multinational cross-sectional surveys on clinical practice and educational curricula.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2026Article
- Prediction, pain, and the power of context: toward a contemporary identity for the chiropractic profession.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2026Review
- Untangling the Osteopathic Gordian Knot: Reconceptualized Principles for Sustainable and Contemporary Clinical Practice-A Conceptual Perspective.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- MASSAG model: Towards an integrative neuroscience framework linking emotional trauma, pain, and mechanisms of force-based manipulations.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2026Review
- Reduced Trust in Bodily Sensations Predicts Suicidal Ideation in Hospitalized Patients With Major Depression: An Observational Study.Suicide & life-threatening behavior · 2025Observational
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- Patient-Practitioner-Environment Synchronization: Four-Step Process for Integrating Interprofessional and Distinctive Competencies in Osteopathic Practice-A Scoping Review with Integrative Hypothesis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The role of sensory attenuation in symptomatic and healthy individuals: a scoping review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Touch medicine: bridging the gap between recent insights from touch research and clinical medicine and its special significance for the treatment of affective disorders.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Review
- Applying an osteopathic intervention to improve mild to moderate mental health symptoms: a mixed-methods feasibility study protocol.BMJ open · 2023Article
- Reconceptualizing Somatic Dysfunction in the Light of a Neuroaesthetic Enactive Paradigm.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- "What you feel under your hands": exploring professionals' perspective of somatic dysfunction in osteopathic clinical practice-a qualitative study.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2022Article
- Beliefs and Use of Palpatory Findings in Osteopathic Clinical Practice: A Qualitative Descriptive Study among Italian Osteopaths.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- An Enactive-Ecological Model to Guide Patient-Centered Osteopathic Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- An Active Inference Account of Touch and Verbal Communication in Therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Biobehavioural Synchrony in Musculoskeletal Care.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Globally, mental and musculoskeletal disorders present with high prevalence, disease burden, and comorbidity. In order to improve the quality of care for patients with persistent physical and comorbid mental health conditions, person-centered care approaches addressing psychosocial factors are currently advocated. Central to successful person-centered care is a multidisciplinary collaboration between mental health and musculoskeletal specialists underpinned by a robust therapeutic alliance. Such a collaborative approach might be found in osteopathy, which is typically utilized to treat patients with musculoskeletal disorders but may arguably also benefit mental health outcomes. However, research and practice exploring the reputed effect of osteopathy on patients with mental health problems lack a robust framework. In this hypothesis and theory article, we build upon research from embodied cognition, predictive coding, interoception, and osteopathy to propose an embodied, predictive and interoceptive framework that underpins osteopathic person-centered care for individuals with persistent physical and comorbid mental health problems. Based on the premise that, for example, chronic pain and comorbid depression are underlined by overly precise predictions or imprecise sensory information, we hypothesize that osteopathic treatment may generate strong interoceptive prediction errors that update the generative model underpinning the experience of pain and depression. Thus, physical and mental symptoms may be reduced through active and perceptual inference. We discuss how these theoretical perspectives can inform future research into osteopathy and mental health to reduce the burden of comorbid psychological factors in patients with persistent physical symptoms and support person-centered multidisciplinary care in mental health.
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