Efficacy of Trigger Points Massage in Severity of Chronic Tension Headache:An Unmasked, Randomized, Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 80
- 主要终点
- Headache severity change
研究概览
简要总结
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.
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
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 60 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Chronic tension type headache according to IHS criteria
- •Finding painful trigger point in physical examination
- •no contraindication for massage
- •no prophylactic treatment
- •written inform consent
排除标准
- •Dementia or severe cognitive impairment
- •Under Treatment with drugs with prophylactic effect
- •History of RA or Cervicocephalic fracture or other skeletal deformity
- •Other complementary treatment
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention
Trigger point massage
干预措施: Massage (Other)
Control
Treatment with standard drug Nortriptyline
干预措施: Massage (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Headache severity change
时间窗: 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
次要结局
- Headache duration change(Change in Time duration in week 4 from the baseline)
- Headache frequency change(Change in number of attacks in week 4 from the base line)
- Number of analgesic change(Change in Number of analgesic drugs used in week 4 from the baseline)
研究者
Athena Sharifi Razavi
Assistant Professor in Neurology
Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences