Muscle Strength in Shoulder and Neck Muscles in Tension Type Headache Patients. Effect of Specific Strength Training

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tension-Type Headache
• Interventions: Other: Strength training; Other: Ergonomic and posture

• Registration Number: NCT02984826
• Lead Sponsor: Danish Headache Center

Brief Summary

Background:

Tension Type Headache (TTH) is highly frequent and is of great socio-economic importance. Andersen et al. 2008 has shown that maximal muscle strength is reduced in women with trapezius myalgia. It is shown that specific strength training leads to prolonged pain relief.

Aim:Test: To investigate the impact of TTH on shoulder, and neck muscle strength in patients with TTH compared to healthy controls.

Intervention: To investigate the effect of specific strength training on patients with TTH compared with control group, receiving training in ergonomics.

Method: Test part. 60 tension headache patients, 30 healthy. Muscle testing of neck and shoulder. Testing conducted by blinded research assistant.

Intervention group: 60 patients with tension headache randomly assigned to the intervention group or control group. Intervention with specific strength training program runs for 10 weeks. The control group will be trained in ergonomics. 3 months follow up.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-05
• Primary Completion: 2012-06
• Study Completion: 2012-06
• Status Verified: 2016-11
• Study First Submitted: 2016-11-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2016-12-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-12-06
• Study First Posted: 2016-12-07
• Last Update Posted: 2016-12-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 90

Inclusion Criteria

• Tension-type headache(TTH), inclusion criteria were age between 18 and 65 years and for patients a diagnosis of TTH ≥8 headache days per month, and ≤3 migraine days per month according to ICHD-II -criteria.

Exclusion Criteria

• Exclusion criteria were medication overuse headache (ICHD-II), previous whiplash or head trauma, other major physical or neurological diseases, depression, other mental illness, or being unable to understand and speak Danish. The patients were tested for cervicogenic headache according to Jull, et al 2007, and were excluded if the test was positive.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Strength training	Strength training	Intervention with specific strength training program runs for 10 weeks.
Ergonomic and posture	Ergonomic and posture	Intervention, the control group will be trained in ergonomics and posture.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Headache frequency	Primary outcome headache frequency at (19-22 weeks)	Frequency was calculated and analyzed as days with headache pr. month. primary outcome at follow up.(19-22 weeks)
Headache Duration	Primary outcome duration of pain at (19-22 weeks)	The duration of the headache was registered in hours for each day with headache.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intensity of headache	Intensity of pain at (19-22 weeks)	The intensity was registered on a 0-10 Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) where 0 is no pain, and 10 is worst possible pain. It was calculated as intensity mean/week and a mean for 4 weeks were produced
Medication intake	Medication intake at (19-22 weeks)	Use of pain medicine was registered as days of medicine intake throughout the entire trial.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Danish Headache Center Rigshospitalet - Glostrup; 🇩🇰 Glostrup, Denmark