Trigger Point Massage in Chronic Tension Headache

Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tension-Type Headache

Treatments: Other: Massage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04232046

1288

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Trigger point massage

Treatment:

Other: Massage

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Treatment with standard drug Nortriptyline

Treatment:

Other: Massage