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Clinical Effectiveness of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment in Chronic Migraine

NCT01851148 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 105

Last updated 2013-09-04

No results posted yet for this study

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.

Conditions

Interventions

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

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

DRUG

triptans

administration of triptans drug treatment according to international guidelines

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Francesco Cerritelli, MS, DO · European Institute for Evidence Based Osteopathic Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-03-31
Primary Completion
2011-11-30
Completion
2012-03-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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