Yoga Therapy for Chronic Tension-Type Headache

Yoga Therapy for Chronic Tension-Type Headache: An Evaluation Study

Chronic tension headache represents a considerable social burden in terms of both costs to the health services and also the costs of lost productivity. Episodic tension-type headache can be treated with rest and analgesics, while chronic tension-type headache demands a more fundamental treatment.

Effectiveness of yoga therapy in the management of chronic tension type headache is limited. In this study, yoga therapy was used to explore its effect on chronic tension-type headache.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Chronic Tension-Type Headache
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Yoga Therapy

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 68
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• India
  • Rajasthan
    • Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 302019
      • NMP Medical Research Institue

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 55 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Meeting the diagnostic criteria of CTTH in the international classification of headache disorders, 3rd edition (beta version) (ICHD-III beta);
• Aged 18-55 years;
• Having the ability of understanding and completing the headache dairy;
• Provide written informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• No headache during the pervious 3 months;
• Taking any prophylactic medication during the previous one month;
• Secondary headache or any systematic cause
• Having serious conditions of the heart, liver, kidney or other organs;
• In pregnancy or lactation, or planning to be pregnant in 6 months;
• Drug and Substance abuse
• Diagnosed psychiatric condition
• Taking any other complementary and alternative medicines
• Practicing yoga of any kind in last three months

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Yoga Therapy; Yoga therapy session lasted for 60 minutes consisting physical posture, Breath work, Relaxation, guided meditation, chants and combination techniques for groups sessions.	Other: Yoga Therapy; Yoga therapy is therapeutic application of yoga, specifically designed to treat the condition using physical posture, breathing exercises, guided relaxation and meditation.; Other Names: Yoga

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The number of days with headache	Number of days with headache every four weeks were assessed through headache diaries	Change from baseline to 12-week of intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
The medication intake	Medication score per month were recorded through headache diaries	Change from baseline to 12 week of intervention
Intensity of Pan	Each headache intensity was measure through 0-10 scale; 0 was no pain and 10 was worst pain	Change from baseline to12 week of intervention
Duration of Pain	Duration of each headache was measured through headache diaries	Change from baseline to12 week of intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: NMP Medical Research Institute
• Collaborators: Yog-Kulam; Department of Zoology, University of Rajasthan, India
• Investigators: Study Director: PJ John, PhD, Deaprtment of Zoology, University of Rajasthan; Study Chair: Chandra M Sharma, DM, SMS Medical College and Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): April 10, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 12, 2012
• Study Completion (Actual): January 15, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 28, 2019
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 2, 2019
• First Posted (Actual): March 5, 2019

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): March 5, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 2, 2019
• Last Verified: March 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Brain Diseases; Central Nervous System Diseases; Nervous System Diseases; Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Headache Disorders, Primary; Headache Disorders; Headache; Tension-Type Headache
• Other Study ID Numbers: NMP/23891

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No