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Standard care for Migraine

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Recruiting

Led By Joe Tepp, DPT

Research Sponsored by Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Acute or chronic manifestation of migraine headaches or prior diagnosis of migraine headache.

Be older than 18 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 1-6 days

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trial will compare two treatment methods for people with migraines. One group will receive dry needling with electrical stimulation and the other will receive standard physical therapy treatment.

Eligible Conditions

Migraine

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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You have a history of migraines, either currently or in the past.

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 1-6 days

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~1-6 days

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 1-6 days for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Change in Neck disability index scale

Change in numeric pain rating scale

Secondary outcome measures

Trends with use of perineural electrical dry needling with or without CGRP antagonist drugs.

Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Active Control

Group I: Standard careActive Control1 Intervention

Standard care will consist of standard physical therapy care which may include the following: cervical or thoracic manipulation or mobilization, muscle stretching, muscle strengthening, dry needling with or without electrical trigger point dry needling, soft tissue release and prescribed therapeutic exercises .

Group II: standard care with perineural electrical dry needling.Active Control1 Intervention

This arm will consist of standard care with perineural electrical dry needling, using a high frequency stimulation placed near the nerve, differing from addressing muscular trigger points. For example, a dry needle placed in the semispinalis capitus muscle along the greater occipital nerve pathway, stimulated at 80 Hz.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Wheaton Franciscan HealthcareLead Sponsor

Joe Tepp, DPTPrincipal InvestigatorAscension Healthcare

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

Am I eligible to participate in this clinical trial?

"This clinical study requires 30 participants with a diagnosis or manifestation of migraine headaches, and their numerical pain rating must be 3/10 (where 0 = no pain and 10 = worse pain). Both men and women aged 18-100 are eligible to join."

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What is the current cap for participants in this research?

"Indeed, information found on clinicaltrials.gov affirms that this research is currently recruiting participants; the trial was posted on February 18th 2020 and last updated on May 6th 2022. Altogether 30 patients are sought from 1 medical centre."

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Is recruitment still underway for this clinical experiment?

"Yes, the data posted on clinicaltrials.gov confirms that this investigation is recruiting participants from one site with a target of 30 individuals. The trial was initially added to their database in February 18th 2020 and its information has been updated as recently as May 6th 2022."

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