Trigger Point Massage in Chronic Tension Headache

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Tension-Type Headache
• Interventions: Other: Massage

• Registration Number: NCT04232046
• Lead Sponsor: Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

Brief Summary

Patients with IHS criteria of chronic tension headache , considering inclusion and exclusion criteria, enrolled to this study. They will be randomized to intervention or control group by block randomization method, then treat by standard drug( nortriptyline 10 mg daily) or trigger point massage.

They report severity, frequency, duration of headaches and number of analgesic drugs in diary during week 1 and week 4. Then data based on dairy will be analysis.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-02-15
• Primary Completion: 2019-03-15
• Study Completion: 2019-03-15
• Status Verified: 2020-01
• Study First Submitted: 2020-01-13
• Study First Submitted QC: 2020-01-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-01-15
• Study First Posted: 2020-01-18
• Last Update Posted: 2020-01-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

1. Chronic tension type headache according to IHS criteria
2. Finding painful trigger point in physical examination
3. no contraindication for massage
4. no prophylactic treatment
5. written inform consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Dementia or severe cognitive impairment
2. Under Treatment with drugs with prophylactic effect
3. History of RA or Cervicocephalic fracture or other skeletal deformity
4. Other complementary treatment

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Massage	Trigger point massage
Control	Massage	Treatment with standard drug Nortriptyline

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Headache severity change	Mean Visual Analogue Scale sore change in week 4 from the baseline	By Visual Analogue Scale score,from 0 that indicate no pain to 10 that indicate severe pain

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Headache duration change	Change in Time duration in week 4 from the baseline	Time duration ( in minutes)of attacks in week
Headache frequency change	Change in number of attacks in week 4 from the base line	Number of attacks in week
Number of analgesic change	Change in Number of analgesic drugs used in week 4 from the baseline	Number of analgesic drugs used during a week