Clinical Effectiveness of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in Chronic Migraine

European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Migraine

Treatments: Drug: triptans; Other: osteopathic manipulative treatment; Other: sham treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01851148

MIOST-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present study is to determine the extend to which OMT is effective on a sample of subjects affected by migraine evaluated using the headache impact test (HIT-6) questionnaire.

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged between 18 and 60 years old
• chronic migraine

Exclusion criteria

• secondary forms of headache,
• chronic illness,
• psychiatric illness,
• post-menopausal women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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105 participants in 3 patient groups

sham therapy

Sham Comparator group

Description:

subtracting serial sevel (McPartland 2003)

Treatment:

Drug: triptans

Other: sham treatment

usual care

Other group

Description:

triptans treatment only

Treatment:

Drug: triptans

OMT

Experimental group

Description:

8 sessions of osteopathic manipulative treatment

Treatment:

Drug: triptans

Other: osteopathic manipulative treatment