Influence of Osteopathic Intervention on Cervical Muscles in Tension Headaches in Women: Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 入组人数
- 43
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in the intensity and frequency of pain after the three treatment sessions;
研究概览
简要总结
This study aims to understand whether there is any relationship between the intervention on the trapezius, sternocleidomastoid and suboccipital muscles in patients with chronic tension headaches.
详细描述
It is expected to find an improvement in the symptoms and frequency of tension headaches.
In this study, the investigators intend to see the effects of trapezius and sternocleidomastoid "stretching techniques", and "suboccipital inhibition" on tension headaches. To collect data, volunteers were asked to fill out the Headache Impact Test (HIT-6).
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 60 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Tension headaches;
- •Being over eighteen years of age;
排除标准
- •Loss of mobility of cervical;
- •Cervical and shoulder pain during episodes;
- •Other headaches (migraine, cervicogenic headache...)
- •Other interventions and/or pharmacological treatment a few days before the intervention;
- •Epilepsy;
研究组 & 干预措施
Control Group
Each volunteer selected in this group will complete a scale, in this case Hit-6, to collect data and evaluate the evolution.
Then a placebo technique will be used, which consists of imitating the contacts of the techniques without compressing or pulling the tissue, lasted 6 minutes.
This procedure will be repeated for two more sessions. One month after the first evaluation, the volunteers filled out the Hit-6 scale again.
干预措施: Placebo Technique (Other)
Experimental Group
After each volunteer completes the Hit-6 scale, one of the researchers will perform the "trapezius and sternocleidomastoid stretching techniques", and "suboccipital inhibition". The techniques performed will only be done once, lasted 6 minutes.
This procedure will be repeated for two more sessions. One month after the first evaluation, the volunteers filled out the Hit-6 scale again.
干预措施: Stretching technique (Other)
Experimental Group
After each volunteer completes the Hit-6 scale, one of the researchers will perform the "trapezius and sternocleidomastoid stretching techniques", and "suboccipital inhibition". The techniques performed will only be done once, lasted 6 minutes.
This procedure will be repeated for two more sessions. One month after the first evaluation, the volunteers filled out the Hit-6 scale again.
干预措施: Inhibition of the suboccipital (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in the intensity and frequency of pain after the three treatment sessions;
时间窗: One month after the first intervention
The scale Hit-6 will be the instrument used to evaluate the level the intensity and frequency of tension headache. This instrument consists of six questions about the characteristics of headaches, with each question presenting five choices. The answers range from never to always. This data will be collected immediately before the first investigation and one month after the first evaluation, through the volunteers filling out the scale.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Natália Maria Oliveira Campelo
Investigator
Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Porto