Migraine
Conditions
Keywords
osteopathic manipulative treatment, migraine
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
OTHERosteopathic manipulative treatment
It consists of 8 sessions in 6 months. Each osteopathic session is based on a structural evaluation and an indirect technique treatment.
OTHERsham 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
DRUGtriptans
administration of triptans drug treatment according to international guidelines
Sponsors
European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* aged between 18 and 60 years old * chronic migraine
Exclusion criteria
* secondary forms of headache, * chronic illness, * psychiatric illness, * post-menopausal women
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| difference in HIT-6 score | at entry and after 26 weeks |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| number of migraine attacks | 26 weeks |
Countries
Italy
Outcome results
None listed