Effectiveness of the Treatment of Tension-type Headache With Manual and Manipulative Therapy
Tension-type Headache
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Tension-type Headache focused on measuring Tension-type headache, Effectiveness, Manual therapy
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects aged between 18 and 65 years
- Diagnosis of frequent ETTH and CTTH
- Having headache episodes on more than 1 day per month
- Headache episodes lasting from 30 minutes to 7 days
Headaches having at least 2 of the following characteristics:
- Bilateral location of pain
- Pressing non pulsating quality
- Mild or moderate intensity
- Not aggravated by physical activity
- Sufferers may present photophobia, phonophobia, nausea or vomiting
- Headache may be associated with pericranial tenderness
- Suffering from TTH for over 3 months
- Subjects being under pharmacological control
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients with infrequent ETTH, and patients with probable TTH in its frequent and infrequent forms.
- Headache that is aggravated by head movements.
- Metabolic or musculoskeletal disorders with symptoms similar to headache
- Previous neck trauma
- Vertigo, dizziness, arterial hypertension.
- Joint stiffness, arteriosclerosis or advanced degenerative osteoarthritis
- Patients with heart devices
- Patients in process of pharmacological adaptation
- Excessive emotional tension
- Neurological disorders
- Laxity of neck soft tissues
- Radiological alterations
- General hypermobility or hyperlaxity
- Joint instability
- Pregnancy
Sites / Locations
- Gemma V Espí López
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm 3
Arm 4
Experimental
Experimental
Experimental
Placebo Comparator
Manual therapy
Occiput-atlas-axis joint manipulation
Combined treatment
Control group
Manual therapy of Suboccipital soft tissue Inhibition treatment aims to release the suboccipital muscle spasm that maintains the occiput-atlas-axis joint dysfunction.
Is bilaterally administered. The aim of restoring the mobility of joints between occiput, atlas and axis, which enables to correct a global joint dysfunction
The group receiving combined treatment received the two previous techniques exactly with the same sequence.
Control group not receive treatment and stayed in this position for 10 minutes