Frequent tension-type headache
Conditions
Interventions
Experimental group:acupuncture
Western medicine control group:oral western medicine
Conventional acupuncture control group:conventional acupuncture
Sponsors
The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients who meet the diagnostic criteria for frequent tension headache; 2. Obvious tenderness in the head and neck muscles found on palpation; 3. Patients aged between 18 and 70 years; 4. Patients who can cooperate with the completion of the experiment, and can independently record headache diary and fill in the questionnaire scale; 5. Voluntary participants who have signed informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Other primary headaches, such as migraine and cluster headache; 2. Headache secondary to other diseases, such as hypertension, post-traumatic brain syndrome, intracranial lesions, infections, tuberculosis, and headache caused by drug overuse; 3. Patients with unstable vital signs complicated with serious primary diseases of heart, cerebrovascular, liver, kidney, lung and hematopoietic system; 4. Patients with mental illness; 5. Pregnant or lactating patients; 6. Patients who have taken tension-type headache related drugs (such as analgesics, anti-anxiety and depression drugs, etc.) in the past 1 month; 7. Participating in other clinical trials.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Degree of headache;Headache index; | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Psychomechanical score;Sleep quality assessment;Quality of life;Central Sensitization Inventory-25, CSI-25;Patients' satisfaction degree;Overall efficacy evaluation;Safety evaluation;Total Tenderness Scoring, TTS;Pain Perception Threshold(PPT), Referred Pain Threshold(RPT), Pain Tolerance Threshold(PTT);Assessment of muscle tone and stiffness;Electrophysiological assessment of muscle;Assessment of muscle local circulation status;Serum biochemical indices; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
Public ContactDu Yuanhao
The First Affiliated Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Outcome results
None listed