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Exercise and Manipulative Therapy for Older Persons With Headache

NCT01736774 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2016-01-28

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Summary

The presence of cervical musculoskeletal impairment is not specific to cervicogenic headache but other various frequent intermittent headache types (i.e. migraine and tension-type headache) in the elderly population. There has been no trial to date which has investigated the effectiveness of physiotherapy treatment specifically for older persons with various types of headache with associated neck pain and cervical musculoskeletal impairment. Thus, the purpose of study investigate the efficacy of physiotherapy treatment for older persons who have headache concomitant with neck pain and musculoskeletal impairment

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Usual care intervention

The usual care intervention will include appropriate primary care as required including medication

OTHER

Physiotherapy treatment

Exercise and manipulative therapy treatment for 10 weeks:The treatment intervention consists of two visits per week for the first four weeks (8 treatments) and one visit per week for the last six weeks (6 treatments)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Chiang Mai University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sureeporn Uthaikhup, Ph.D. · Department of Physical Therapy, Faculty of Associated Medical Sciences

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-12-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2015-07-31

Countries

  • Thailand

Study Locations

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Diseases

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