Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT01851148
Clinical Effectiveness of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in Chronic Migraine
Clinical Effectiveness of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Versus Sham Therapy and Usual Care in Chronic Migraine: 3 Armed RCT
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 105 (actual)
- Sponsor
- European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
The aim of the present study is to determine the extend to which OMT is effective on a sample of subjects affected by migraine evaluated using the headache impact test (HIT-6) questionnaire.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | osteopathic manipulative treatment | It consists of 8 sessions in 6 months. Each osteopathic session is based on a structural evaluation and an indirect technique treatment. |
| OTHER | sham treatment | Sham therapy was administered with subjects lying supine on the treatment table while the operator used light manual contact to "treat" the subject. The practitioner's attention was distracted by subtracting serial seven calculation in silence |
| DRUG | triptans | administration of triptans drug treatment according to international guidelines |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2010-03-01
- Primary completion
- 2011-11-01
- Completion
- 2012-03-01
- First posted
- 2013-05-10
- Last updated
- 2013-09-04
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Italy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01851148. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.