Tertiary Care With or Without Manual Therapy for Chronic Migraine

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-02-28
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The aim of this study is to determine if adding manual therapy to care as usual reduces the discomfort from chronic migraine compared to care as usual alone

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Bournemouth University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Female adults 18 years of age or older with a good command of English (to enable informed consent) Existing patients with chronic migraine as diagnosed by a clinical interview with a neurologist in line with the International Classification of Headache Diagnosis criteria (ICHD) Undergoing care as usual from the neurologist

Exclusion Criteria:

Currently having or had manual therapy for neck, shoulder in the last six weeks.

Having a condition contraindicated for manual therapy including but not limited to inflammatory disorders, severe osteoporosis and tumours.

Identification of any medical 'red flags' by the neurologist including

• Evidence of any central nervous system involvement for example:

• Facial palsy (presence of ptosis/Horner's syndrome)

• Visual disturbance (presence of blurred vision, diplopia, hemianopia)

• Speech disturbance (presence of dysarthria, dysphonia, dysphasia such as expressive or receptive)

• Balance disturbance (presence of dizziness, imbalance, unsteadiness, falls)

• Paraesthesia (presence, location such as upper limb/lower limb, face)

• Weakness (presence, location such as upper limb/lower limb)

• Known major psychiatric or psychological conditions not under control