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- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT05741775
Physiotherapy Intervention for Migraine Symptoms
Efficacy of Physiotherapy Intervention Among University Students With Migraine Symptoms
The goal of this randomized control trial is to analyse the effectiveness of Physiotherapy intervention among university students with migraine symptoms. The main objective is:
- To determine the effect of aerobic exercise on the resting-state brainwaves among university students in UTAR with migraine symptoms compared with biofeedback and control exercise.
- To analyse the influence of aerobic exercise on the sleep quality and quality of life among the cohort compared with biofeedback and control exercise.
Although the Migraine Research Foundation listed three main types of non-drug treatments for migraine are lifestyle advice, therapies, and exercises. Some common aerobic exercises such as walking, jogging, a behavioral weight loss program, cycling, and a combination of cross-training, walking, jogging, and cycling are suggested to be beneficial to the migraine patients but there remains no specific protocol established till now. Hence the other main objective of this is to establish a aerobic exercise protocol for patients with migraine symptoms.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Study Type
Enrollment (Anticipated)
Phase
- Early Phase 1
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Kiruthika Selvakumar
- Phone Number: 0139441606
- Email: kiruthika@utar.edu.my
Study Locations
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Selangor
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Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia, 43000
- Recruiting
- UTAR
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Contact:
- Kiruthika Selvakumar
- Phone Number: 0139441606
- Email: kiruthika@utar.edu.my
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Principal Investigator:
- Kiruthika Selvakumar, MPT
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Undergraduate, and postgraduate students from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
- 4 of 5 on the Migraine Screen Questionnaire
Exclusion Criteria:
- Score of more than or equal to 5 on the visual aura rating scale,
- Diagnosed to have a secondary headache (headache attributed to the causative disorder example: infection, trauma, injury to head/ or neck)
- Pregnancy,
- Took medication for neurological conditions like stroke, multiple sclerosis and took medications for cardiorespiratory conditions like asthma,
- Took medications for headache and
- Unwilling to participate will be excluded
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Aerobic training
Participants in the aerobic group will undergo a training that includes walking, static bicycle, and neck exercise.
The participants start the session with a warm-up for 5 minutes followed by 30 minutes of aerobic exercise and end with 5 minutes of cool-down exercise.
40 minutes/ session, 3 times per week for 6 weeks.
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The warm-up exercise will include light aerobic activity and some dynamic stretching movements.
Similarly, the cool down exercises will include buttock stretch, hamstring stretch, inner thigh stretch, calf stretch and thigh stretch.
Each stretch to be performed for 5 repetitions with a hold time of 15 seconds for each.
An elastic band secured around the head will be used to apply local pressure over the area.
Kettler Computeranleitung Advanced display will be used to train static cycling.
ProAction BH Treadmill G6700 instrument will be used for aerobic training.
Other Names:
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Experimental: Biofeedback training
Participants in this group will undergo an electromyography (EMG) biofeedback training for trapezius and frontalis using rose for relaxation 3 times per week for 6 weeks.
Each session will be for 30 minutes with a 5-minute resting period between each muscle session.
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Neurotrac myoplus 4 pro instrument will be used for EMG biofeedback training.
Other Names:
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No Intervention: Waitlist Control group
The control group will receive the patient education sheet with the basic information about migraine in terms of symptoms, triggers, and prevention tips.
This group is also called as "waitlist control group" who will receive intervention after the active treatment group.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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resting-state EEG
Time Frame: 20 minutes
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Recording of resting-state EEG will be performed using MUSE 2 a portable EEG recording device.
The headset has four dry sensors (two mastoid and two forehead sensors) and fits over the ears and extends at an angle over the middle of the forehead when properly fitted with 3 reference electrodes.
Once the headband is fitted, the mind monitor app will be used for data acquisition.
The data obtained will be imported to MATLAB using EEGLAB function plugins (muse monitor app) CSV file.
Once imported the pre-processing steps will be done to run Independent Component Analysis (ICA).
Amplitude and frequency, frequency band ratio, power spectrum density and coherence will be the primary measurement analyzed for the resting-state EEG recording,
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20 minutes
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Pittsburgh Sleep index
Time Frame: 10 minutes
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Pittsburgh Sleep index is a self-rated questionnaire that assesses sleep quality and disturbances over a 1-month time interval.
19 individual items generate seven component scores: subjective sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction.
The sum of scores for these seven components yields one global score.
The sleep component scores are summed to yield a total score ranging from 0 to 21 with the higher total score (referred to as global score) indicating worse sleep quality.
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10 minutes
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Migraine Specific Quality of life
Time Frame: 10 minutes
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Migraine Specific Quality of life is a 14-item instrument that measures the impact of migraine across three essential aspects of a patient's health-related quality of life over the past 4 weeks: role function-restrictive (RR), role function-preventive (RP), and emotional function (EF).
Raw dimension scores are computed as a sum of item response and rescaled from a 0 to 100 scale.
The higher the score better is the quality of life.
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10 minutes
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Health survey questionnaire
Time Frame: 5 minutes
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Characteristics like frequency, severity and duration of migraine.
Level of pain scored on a four-point numerical rating scale (0-3) equivalent to no, mild, moderate, and severe pain: 0 no pain.
1 mild pain, does not interfere with usual activities 2 moderate pain, inhibits but does not wholly prevent usual activities 3 severe pain, prevents all activities.
The other components are expressed as either decreased/ increased/ remains the same/ unable to recall.
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5 minutes
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Varkey E, Cider A, Carlsson J, Linde M. Exercise as migraine prophylaxis: a randomized study using relaxation and topiramate as controls. Cephalalgia. 2011 Oct;31(14):1428-38. doi: 10.1177/0333102411419681. Epub 2011 Sep 2.
- Santiago MD, Carvalho Dde S, Gabbai AA, Pinto MM, Moutran AR, Villa TR. Amitriptyline and aerobic exercise or amitriptyline alone in the treatment of chronic migraine: a randomized comparative study. Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2014 Nov;72(11):851-5. doi: 10.1590/0004-282x20140148.
- Wallasch TM, Kropp P. Multidisciplinary integrated headache care: a prospective 12-month follow-up observational study. J Headache Pain. 2012 Oct;13(7):521-9. doi: 10.1007/s10194-012-0469-y. Epub 2012 Jul 12.
- Puledda F, Shields K. Non-Pharmacological Approaches for Migraine. Neurotherapeutics. 2018 Apr;15(2):336-345. doi: 10.1007/s13311-018-0623-6.
- Parsons AA. Cortical spreading depression: its role in migraine pathogenesis and possible therapeutic intervention strategies. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2004 Oct;8(5):410-6. doi: 10.1007/s11916-996-0016-0.
- Ouyang CS, Chiang CT, Yang RC, Wu RC, Lin LC. Quantitative electroencephalogram analysis of frontal cortex functional changes in patients with migraine. Kaohsiung J Med Sci. 2020 Jul;36(7):543-551. doi: 10.1002/kjm2.12213. Epub 2020 Apr 7.
- Irby MB, Bond DS, Lipton RB, Nicklas B, Houle TT, Penzien DB. Aerobic Exercise for Reducing Migraine Burden: Mechanisms, Markers, and Models of Change Processes. Headache. 2016 Feb;56(2):357-69. doi: 10.1111/head.12738. Epub 2015 Dec 8.
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Study Start (Actual)
Primary Completion (Anticipated)
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First Submitted That Met QC Criteria
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- U/SERC/188/2022
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
Drug and device information, study documents
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