NCT01509326

Chiropractic and Acupressure for Headaches

A Randomized Clinical Trial of Chiropractic Care for Headaches With and Without an Acupressure Device

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2 / Phase 3
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will investigate the effect of chiropractic treatment with and without the use of an acupressure pillow for cervical headaches. Subjects will be randomly allocated to groups with and without the pillow and will be followed for five weeks. The primary outcome measure will be headache frequency. The investigators predict that the group using the pillow on a daily basis will demonstrate significantly greater decrease in headache frequency over a 5-week interval.

Conditions

• Cervicogenic Headache
• Tension-type Headache
• Migraine Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	chiropractic treatment	12 sessions over 4 weeks
DEVICE	Dr. Zaxx pillow	Daily use of an acupressure pillow

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2012-10-01
• Completion: 2012-11-01
• First posted: 2012-01-13
• Last updated: 2012-01-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Canada