Trial | NCT01851148  Report issue

Title

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

  • Phase

    N/A

  • Study Type

    Interventional

  • Status

    Completed No Results Posted

  • Intervention/Treatment

    sumatriptan ...

  • Study Participants

    105
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.
Study Started
Mar 31
2010
Primary Completion
Nov 30
2011
Study Completion
Mar 31
2012
Last Update
Sep 04
2013
Estimate

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 names: OMT

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

  • Other names: sham

Drug triptans

administration of triptans drug treatment according to international guidelines

sham therapy Sham Comparator

subtracting serial sevel (McPartland 2003)

usual care Other

triptans treatment only

OMT Experimental

8 sessions of osteopathic manipulative treatment

Criteria 

Inclusion Criteria:

aged between 18 and 60 years old
chronic migraine

Exclusion Criteria:

secondary forms of headache,
chronic illness,
psychiatric illness,
post-menopausal women
No Results Posted