NCT06482736

Effect Of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy on Tension-Type Headache in Adolescent Females

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: October 6 University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Chronic headaches in adolescents can have consequences such as absence from school, inability to maintain social activities, and additional disorders such as anxiety, depression, problems sleeping, and reduced quality of life to investigates the efficacy shock wave diathermy on tension headaches in adolescent females

Detailed description

The prevalence of headaches increases with age, with a prevalence of 82% during adolescence. Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy could reduce the pain of myofascial pain syndrome by pain signal alteration, promoting angiogenesis and increasing perfusion in ischemic tissues induced by sensitization of nociceptors and muscle ischemia

Conditions

• Tension-Type Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy	Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy could reduce the pain of myofascial pain syndrome by pain signal alteration, promoting angiogenesis and increasing perfusion in ischemic tissues induced by sensitization of nociceptors and muscle ischemia.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-05
• Primary completion: 2023-08-08
• Completion: 2024-01-22
• First posted: 2024-07-01
• Last updated: 2024-07-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt