Management of Headache Disorders: A Clinical Trial Screening for Prognostic Patient Characteristics
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00298142 |
Recruitment Status :
Terminated
(Insufficient enrollment)
First Posted : March 1, 2006
Last Update Posted : October 6, 2009
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Headache | Procedure: Usual Care provided by a medical doctor (GP or Neurologist) Procedure: Usual care plus Physio-/ Manual Therapy | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Estimated Enrollment : | 120 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Prospective Randomised Clinical Trial to Investigate the Management of Headache Disorders. Study to Identify Prognostic Patient Characteristics and to Investigate the Additional Value of Physio-/Manual Therapy |
Study Start Date : | February 2006 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | June 2007 |

- Manual Examination of the Cervical Spine
- Pressure algometry
- Thermal stimulation
- Perceived effect
- HIT-6
- Frequency of headache
- Intensity of headache
- Medication Intake
- Additional Profession help
- Absenteism

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Dutch speaking
- Willing to participate
- At least 18 years old
- Combination of headache and neck pain
- Headache since at least two months and at least twice a month
- A combination of migraine, tension type headache and cervicogenic headache
Exclusion Criteria:
- Clusterheadache
- Trigeminusneuralgia
- Peripheral neuropathy
- A history with neck surgery
- Comorbidity with chronic muskuloskeletal pain like fibromyalgia
- Radicular pain in the upper extremity
- Osteoarthritis
- Down Syndroom
- Physio/ manual therapy treatment in the last 12 months for this headache complaint.
- The use of prescribed medication (like NSAIDs and triptans) for this headache complaint during the last two months
- Pregnancy
- Red flags as described in the Dutch General Practitioners Headache Guideline

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00298142
Belgium | |
GP-De Loof | |
Aalst, Belgium | |
UZA - Neurology Dept. | |
Antwerp, Belgium, 2650 | |
GP-Roelants | |
Boom, Belgium, 2850 | |
AZ-VUB | |
Brussels, Belgium, 1090 | |
GP-Marmitte | |
Dilbeek, Belgium, 1700 | |
GP - Sengeleng | |
Hamme, Belgium, 9220 | |
GP-De Hertogh | |
Kampenhout, Belgium | |
GP- De Smet, De Leu, Van Watermeulen, Thienpont, Wille | |
Laarne, Belgium | |
GP - Riffi Abdellatif | |
Mechelen, Belgium, 2800 | |
GP-Vande Voorde | |
Merchtem, Belgium | |
GP - Goossens | |
Reet, Belgium, 2840 | |
GP- Dingemans, Michiels, Declercq | |
Reet, Belgium, 2840 | |
GP-Van de Heijning | |
Schoten, Belgium | |
GP-Roelands | |
Zemst, Belgium, 1980 |
Principal Investigator: | Willem De Hertogh, MSc | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
Other Publications:
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00298142 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
Headache Trial OZR-VUB 997 OZR-HA G 815 |
First Posted: | March 1, 2006 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | October 6, 2009 |
Last Verified: | October 2009 |
Cervicogenic Headache Migraine Tension Type Headache |
Headache Disorders Headache Pain Neurologic Manifestations |
Brain Diseases Central Nervous System Diseases Nervous System Diseases |