Assessing the Effectiveness of Two Treatment Strategies for Tension-type Headache

• Status: Withdrawn
• Trial end date: 2015-07-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The primary aim of the pilot data proposal is to compare usual care (medications) versus multi-disciplinary treatment in temporomandibular disorder (TMD) patients.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Minnesota; University of Minnesota - Clinical and Translational Science Institute
• Treatments: Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Fifty consecutive subjects (Age 18 to 65) will be included when they fulfill the diagnostic criteria for episodic or chronic TTH with pericranial muscle tenderness3 and TMD including myofascial pain involving the temporalis muscle -

Exclusion Criteria:

Exclusion criteria, assessed by review of medical history, include:

• systemic rheumatic disease

• widespread pain

• pregnancy

• concurrent use of tricyclic antidepressants, steroids, anti-inflammatories, muscle relaxants, or narcotics

• major psychiatric disease

• any medical contraindications