NCT06604637

Effectiveness of Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Individuals With Tension-Type Headache

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Bitlis Eren University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

It is planned to examine the effect of Vagus Nerve Stimulation on headache symptoms in individuals with tension-type headache.

Detailed description

Tension-type headache is the most common primary headache, usually bilateral, characterized by oppressive and squeezing pain of mild or moderate intensity, unchanged by physical activity. It affects approximately 80% of the population and has a point prevalence of 42% in the general population. There are various pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment methods for tension-type headache. One of the non-pharmacological treatment methods may be Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS). VNS can affect healing processes by regulating the autonomic nervous system and reduce symptoms in tension-type headache.

Conditions

• Tension-Type Headache

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Non-invasive transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS)	taVNS will be applied for a total of 12 sessions, 20 minutes each session, 3 days/week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-09-30
• Primary completion: 2025-03-05
• Completion: 2025-03-05
• First posted: 2024-09-19
• Last updated: 2025-03-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)