Yoga Nasal Irrigation in the Treatment of Chronic Tension Type Headache

NMP Medical Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Tension-Type Headache

Treatments: Other: Jalaneti

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04113512

NMP/98672

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effectiveness of Yoga Nasal Irrigation (Jalaneti) on patients with chronic tension-type headache reducing pain and disability.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Meeting the diagnostic criteria of chronic tension type headache as per International Classification of Headache Disorders, 3rd edition (beta version) (ICHD-3 beta criteria)
• Aged 18-60 years;
• Ability of understand and completing the headache dairy;
• Volunteering to the study
• Provide written informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Not having tension-type headache during the pervious 3 months or having less than 8 episode of tension type headache in serious month.
• Taking any prophylactic headache medication or complementary and alternative medicine in last 3 month;
• Secondary Headaches
• In pregnancy, lactation, or planning to be pregnant in 6 months
• Having nose bleeding disorders or recurrent infections;
• Psychiatric diagnosis or medication history

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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98 participants in 2 patient groups

Yoga Nasal Irrigation Group

Experimental group

Description:

Saline nasal irrigation using neti pot was practiced.

Treatment:

Other: Jalaneti

Wait list Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Group was given usual pain medication. After trial period, they were offered the intervention.