Chronic Tension-Type Headache
Conditions
Brief summary
Chronic tension headache represents a considerable social burden in terms of both costs to the health services and also the costs of lost productivity. Episodic tension-type headache can be treated with rest and analgesics, while chronic tension-type headache demands a more fundamental treatment. Effectiveness of yoga therapy in the management of chronic tension type headache is limited. In this study, yoga therapy was used to explore its effect on chronic tension-type headache.
Interventions
OTHERYoga Therapy
Yoga therapy is therapeutic application of yoga, specifically designed to treat the condition using physical posture, breathing exercises, guided relaxation and meditation.
Sponsors
Yog-Kulam
Department of Zoology, University of Rajasthan, India
NMP Medical Research Institute
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 55 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Meeting the diagnostic criteria of CTTH in the international classification of headache disorders, 3rd edition (beta version) (ICHD-III beta); * Aged 18-55 years; * Having the ability of understanding and completing the headache dairy; * Provide written informed consent.
Exclusion criteria
* No headache during the pervious 3 months; * Taking any prophylactic medication during the previous one month; * Secondary headache or any systematic cause * Having serious conditions of the heart, liver, kidney or other organs; * In pregnancy or lactation, or planning to be pregnant in 6 months; * Drug and Substance abuse * Diagnosed psychiatric condition * Taking any other complementary and alternative medicines * Practicing yoga of any kind in last three months
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The number of days with headache | Change from baseline to 12-week of intervention | Number of days with headache every four weeks were assessed through headache diaries |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The medication intake | Change from baseline to 12 week of intervention | Medication score per month were recorded through headache diaries |
| Intensity of Pan | Change from baseline to12 week of intervention | Each headache intensity was measure through 0-10 scale; 0 was no pain and 10 was worst pain |
| Duration of Pain | Change from baseline to12 week of intervention | Duration of each headache was measured through headache diaries |
Countries
India
Outcome results
None listed