Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT04232046
Trigger Point Massage in Chronic Tension Headache
Efficacy of Trigger Points Massage in Severity of Chronic Tension Headache:An Unmasked, Randomized, Controlled Trial
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 80 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
Patients with IHS criteria of chronic tension headache , considering inclusion and exclusion criteria, enrolled to this study. They will be randomized to intervention or control group by block randomization method, then treat by standard drug( nortriptyline 10 mg daily) or trigger point massage. They report severity, frequency, duration of headaches and number of analgesic drugs in diary during week 1 and week 4. Then data based on dairy will be analysis.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Massage | Massage the trigger points in 8 different points for 1 min in circle direction and 3 times a day. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-02-15
- Primary completion
- 2019-03-15
- Completion
- 2019-03-15
- First posted
- 2020-01-18
- Last updated
- 2020-01-18
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04232046. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.