Efficacy of Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation in Pain Relief (PNF)

Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

Status

Completed

Conditions

Migraine Disorders

Treatments

Other: PNF contract-relax

Other: Static stretching

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02549885

ECCR2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the contract-relax technique of proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, and the static stretching exercise are effective in reducing the frequency, intensity and duration of headache and in improving the perception of quality of life in women with migraine.

Full description

This is an randomized clinical trial, double blind, comparing two interventions in women with migraine, whose diagnosis was confirmed by a neurologist.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 40 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age between 18and 40 years
Clinical diagnosis of migraine
Participants with at least one day with acute migraine per month, with attacks lasting 4-72 hours.

Exclusion criteria

Obesity type I, II or III, according to the classification of Body Mass Index.
Pregnancy, lactation or both.
Presence of meningitis, demyelinating diseases, cerebral aneurysm, intracranial hypertension, myopathies, myelopathy, fibromyalgia, symptomatic neck disc herniation, rheumatoid arthritis and history of tumors in the brain or spine.
Participants who performed other manual therapeutic interventions or other physical therapy modalities in the head or neck during the survey period.
Participants who have daily prophylactic medication for migraine.