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Acute Treatment of Migraine With e-TNS (ACME)

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02590939
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 29, 2015
Results First Posted : April 9, 2018
Last Update Posted : June 6, 2018
Sponsor:
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Cefaly Technology

Study Description
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Brief Summary:
The main objective of this study is to assess the efficacy of the Cefaly® device as an acute treatment of migraine attack in adult patients. The patients will be applied either an active or placebo external neurostimulation for 1 hour during a migraine attack, and will report the pain on a visual analog scale before and after the treatment.

Condition or disease Intervention/treatment Phase
Migraine Device: CEFALY Active Device: CEFALY Placebo Not Applicable

Study Design
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Study Type : Interventional  (Clinical Trial)
Actual Enrollment : 106 participants
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Triple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Multi-center, Double-blind, Randomized, Sham-controlled Trial on the Acute Treatment of Migraine With the Cefaly® Device
Actual Study Start Date : February 1, 2016
Actual Primary Completion Date : March 31, 2017
Actual Study Completion Date : March 31, 2017

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MedlinePlus related topics: Migraine

Arms and Interventions
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Arm Intervention/treatment
Experimental: Active device
60 minutes of active external trigeminal nerve stimulation with a CEFALY Active device
 Device: CEFALY Active
Active external trigeminal nerve stimulation
Sham Comparator: Sham device
60 minutes of placebo external trigeminal nerve stimulation with a CEFALY Placebo device
 Device: CEFALY Placebo
Placebo external trigeminal nerve stimulation


Outcome Measures
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Primary Outcome Measures :
  1. Pain Score 1-hour [ Time Frame: 1 hour ]
    Mean change of pain score (measured on a pain visual analog scale containing 11 values, from 0 to 10, with 0 meaning no pain and 10 meaning maximal pain) at 1 hour compared to baseline


Secondary Outcome Measures :
  1. Rescue Medication 2 Hours [ Time Frame: 2 hours ]
    Number of patients not having required rescue medication at 2 hours

  2. Pain Score 2 Hours [ Time Frame: 2 hours ]
    Mean change of pain score (measured on a pain visual analog scale containing 11 values, from 0 to 10, with 0 meaning no pain and 10 meaning maximal pain) at 2 hours compared to baseline (if rescue therapy was not used)

  3. Rescue Medication 24 Hours [ Time Frame: 24 hours ]
    Number of patients not having required rescue medication within 24 hours

  4. Pain Score 24 Hours [ Time Frame: 24 hours ]
    Mean change of pain score (measured on a pain visual analog scale containing 11 values, from 0 to 10, with 0 meaning no pain and 10 meaning maximal pain) at 24 hours compared to baseline (if rescue therapy was not used)


Eligibility Criteria
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Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 65 Years   (Adult, Older Adult)
Sexes Eligible for Study:   All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • History of episodic or chronic migraine with or without aura meeting the diagnostic criteria listed in ICHD-III beta (2013) section 1, migraine, with the exception of ''complicated migraine'' (i.e., hemiplegic migraine, basilar-type migraine, ophthalmoplegic migraine, migrainous infarction)
  • Having a migraine attack lasting at least 3 hours
  • Migraine pain intensity stabilized for at least 1 hour
  • Frontal, retro-, or peri- orbital headache.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Pregnant women
  • Patients having received Botox treatment in the prior 4 months
  • Patients having received supraorbital nerve blocks in the prior 4 months
  • Diagnosis of other primary or secondary headache disorders, except of Medication Overuse Headache
  • Patients with only temporal or occipital headache
  • Patients using opioid medication
  • Patients having taken abortive migraine medication in the prior 3 hours
  • Allodynia: intolerance to supraorbital neurostimulation (allodynia) that makes the treatment not applicable (the patients will be excluded if they are unable to tolerate the first 5 minutes of neurostimulation).
  • Implanted metal or electrical devices in the head
  • Cardiac pacemaker or implanted or wearable defibrillator
  • Patient having had a previous experience with Cefaly®
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT02590939


Locations
United States, Connecticut
Yale University School of Medicine
New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510
United States, Kansas
Rowe Neurology Institute
Lenexa, Kansas, United States, 66214-9836
United States, New York
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York, United States, 10019
Sponsors and Collaborators
Cefaly Technology
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Denise Chou, M.D. Columbia University
  Study Documents (Full-Text)

Documents provided by Cefaly Technology:
Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan  [PDF] July 11, 2016

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Responsible Party: Cefaly Technology
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02590939     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 50213
First Posted: October 29, 2015    Key Record Dates
Results First Posted: April 9, 2018
Last Update Posted: June 6, 2018
Last Verified: May 2018

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Migraine Disorders
Headache Disorders, Primary
Headache Disorders
 Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases