| Sumario: | Introduction: Microkinesitherapie technique was developed in France. This word comes from Greek, which means (“micro”: small and “kinesi”: movement and “therapie”: treatment), being literally “treatment by small movements”. The objective of this study is to analyze the autonomic nervous system behavior in healthy subjects undergone microkinesitherapie technique through the heart rate variability (HRV) analysis. Method: Sixteen Caucasian (11 women) healthy subjects were voluntarily recruited to participate of this study who have never been undergone any manual therapy treatment. All patients who attended the inclusion criteria were evaluated according to anthropometric data, and after this, they underwent a 45 minutes session of microkinesitherapie technique. Orthostatic test was performed by all participants before and right after the treatment, using the Nerve-Express System software to data acquisition and the Kubios HRV to data analysis. We analyzed the HRV according to time domain and frequency domain parameters. Result: We could observe a statistically significant difference in the mean RR intervals, with the subjects becoming closer to the normal values (p ≤ 0.05). There was also a significant difference in the high frequency domain (HF) after the treatment, which corresponds to an increase of parasympathetic nervous system activity (p ≤ 0.05). Conclusion: We have concluded that this technique has contributed to the sympathetic and parasympathetic balance.
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