Yoga Intervention Study on Episodic Tension Type Headache

NMP Medical Research Institute

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Episodic Tension Type Headache

Treatments: Behavioral: Yoga Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01488825

NMP-0090-YR

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study was designed to evaluate effect of yoga intervention on patients having frequent tension type headache.

Enrollment: 77 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• aged between 18 to 60 years
• more than 5 but fewer than 15 headache episodes per month
• headache intensity moderate to severe

Exclusion criteria

• Patients on anti-psychotic, antidepressant or any prophylactic medication
• pregnancy
• Taking psychotherapy or any other alternative medicine
• migraine headache more than 1 day a month
• pain disorder, psychiatric or medical disorder requiring immediate treatment,
• headache due to sinusitis, eyestrain, cervical spondylosis and posttraumatic headaches

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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77 participants in 2 patient groups

Wait-list control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The wait-list control group received no intervention, or instruction and they were observed with their usual care for 12-weeks intervention period. Upon completion of the study, this group received 12 weeks of yoga intervention.

Yoga Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The yoga sessions developed specifically for study participant consisted of 12 weekly 60-minute designed to benefit in episodic tension type headache.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Yoga Therapy