Muscle Soreness and Stiffness in Patients With Chronic or Frequent Episodic Tension Type Headache.

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-01-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim is to investigate muscle soreness and stiffness in patients with Chronic or Frequent Episodic Tension Type Headache before and after treatment with amitriptyline - and to compare the results with healthy individuals.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Danish Headache Center
• Treatments: Amitriptyline; Amitriptyline, perphenazine drug combination; Antidepressive Agents; Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Chronic Tension type headache or frequent episodic tension type headache with at least ten episodes or more per month throughout three months or more.

• Pericranial muscle tenderness

Exclusion Criteria:

• Other primary headache disorder (with the exception of episodic migraine.)

• Pregnancy or ongoing breastfeeding

• Heart disease that contradicts treatment with amitriptyline

• Drug or substance abuse