Treatment of Cervical Pain in Chronic Migraine
WithdrawnNot applicableNCT03453203
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Chronic migraine (CM) is defined as a headache that occurs more than 15 days per month, which has the features of migraine headache on at least 8 days per month.1 The cause of CM is not well understood. Many patients with CM appear to have associated musculoskeletal neck pain. The purpose of this study is to treat cervicalgia in patients with migraine and to look for improvement in migraine frequency and intensity. Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) can diagnose and treat common musculoskeletal dysfunction. This may break facilitation within the nervous system and reduce musculoskeletal pain which subsequently will reduce headache frequency. This will be a randomized controlled trail comparing patients with CM treated with OMT vs no treatment. The investigators will look at the frequency of migraine days before and after the treatment period to determine migraine frequency and improvement.
Study details
- Official title
- Treatment of Cervical Pain in Chronic Migraine
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment Using Counterstrain
- Sponsor
- University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
- Start date
- 2018-04-29
- Primary completion
- 2018-12-29
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients aged 18-80 years of age who fit the ICHD-3 criteria for Chronic Migraine. These patients must be currently on an abortive agent (such as a triptans, NSAIDs) and require at least 8 doses a month. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients will be excluded if there are any signs of secondary headaches. If they have received BOTOX therapy in the past 4 months or are currently receiving BOTOX therapy. If the patients have contraindications to counterstrain OMT (clinical signs of Fractures, ligament instability, severe vertebral artery disease) or are a poor candidate for OMT (unable to follow commands, unable to fully relax).
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03453203