Effectiveness of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Individuals With Tension-Type Headache

Bitlis Eren University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tension-Type Headache

Treatments: Other: Non-invasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06604637

TTH-VNS

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is planned to examine the effect of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on headache symptoms in individuals with tension-type headache.

Full description

Tension-type headache is the most common primary headache, usually bilateral, characterized by oppressive and squeezing pain of mild or moderate intensity, unchanged by physical activity. It affects approximately 80% of the population and has a point prevalence of 42% in the general population.

There are various pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment methods for tension-type headache. One of the non-pharmacological treatment methods may be Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS). VNS can affect healing processes by regulating the autonomic nervous system and reduce symptoms in tension-type headache.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Individuals with tension-type headache according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3) criteria,
• Individuals between the ages of 18-65,

Exclusion criteria

• History of trauma or surgery to the head and neck region,
• Presence of lesions or metal implants in the application area,
• Uncontrolled hypertension/abnormal ECG results/history of myocardial infarction/pacemaker and similar cardiovascular disease history/suspicion,
• Pregnancy or suspicion,
• Other primary and secondary headache types,
• Individuals who received physiotherapy in the last 6 months,

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

VNS Group

Experimental group

Description:

In addition to standard treatment, noninvasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) will be applied to this group.

Treatment:

Other: Non-invasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS)

Control roup

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive standard treatment ( patient education+lifestyle recommendations).