NCT03862638

Yoga Therapy for Chronic Tension-Type Headache

Yoga Therapy for Chronic Tension-Type Headache: An Evaluation Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 68 (actual)
• Sponsor: NMP Medical Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Chronic tension headache represents a considerable social burden in terms of both costs to the health services and also the costs of lost productivity. Episodic tension-type headache can be treated with rest and analgesics, while chronic tension-type headache demands a more fundamental treatment. Effectiveness of yoga therapy in the management of chronic tension type headache is limited. In this study, yoga therapy was used to explore its effect on chronic tension-type headache.

Conditions

• Chronic Tension-Type Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Yoga Therapy	Yoga therapy is therapeutic application of yoga, specifically designed to treat the condition using physical posture, breathing exercises, guided relaxation and meditation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-04-10
• Primary completion: 2012-12-12
• Completion: 2013-01-15
• First posted: 2019-03-05
• Last updated: 2019-03-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: India