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Clinical Trials/IRCT20171219037956N1
IRCT20171219037956N1
Completed
Phase 2

The effects of treating myofascial trigger points of neck using the techniques of dry needling and soft tissue release on the clinical feature of patients with migraine headache

niversity of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences0 sites60 target enrollmentTBD

Overview

Phase
Phase 2
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Not specified
Sponsor
niversity of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences
Enrollment
60
Status
Completed
Last Updated
6 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
TBD
End Date
TBD
Last Updated
6 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
niversity of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1\.A neurologist selected the study subjects based on IHS criteria for diagnosis of migraine.
  • 2\.The patients in this study were between the ages of 25 and 55 years old
  • The patients with migraine were examined to find any active trigger points in UT, SCM, sub\-occipital muscles . The presence of active trigger points was confirmed if 1\- There was an area of focal muscle tenderness that was activated by palpation and that, when activated, referred pain replicating the patient’s headache complaint. 2\- There was a jump sign that was the characteristic behavioral response to pressure on a trigger point” .
  • One diagnostic test in particular, the flexion–rotation test, is said to determine C1\-2 dysfunction .Patient was supine position. With the subject relaxed and the cervical spine is fully flexed with the occiput resting against the examiners. The head is then rotated to the left and the right. If firm resistance is percieved, pain provoked and range is limited before the expected end range .The normal range is reported at 44\-45 degrees, therefore, the test is positive when the range of motion is more than 10 degrees from the normal range.Studies have shown that migraine has a small effect on the range of motion during this test, but this test shows the presence or absence of cervicogenic headache and this test can use for Differential Diagnosis between migraine headache and cervicogenic headache.The positive test indicates a cervicogenic headache

Exclusion Criteria

  • history of cervical disc herniation, unusual migraine, heart failure, pulmonary failure, kidney failure, liver failure, circulation failure, diabetes mellitus
  • patients who were using opioid prophylaxis, anti \-depressant, anti\-anxiety drugs
  • subjects who were pregnant or breastfeeding and
  • Those who having trigger point therapy within the past month before the study
  • The patients, who underwent DN, had no contraindication for needling such as local infection, pregnancy with threatened abortion, taking anticoagulants

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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