Recruiting

McKenzie Method

Sponsor:

Faith Regional Health Services

Code:

NCT05212844

Conditions

Cervicogenic Headache

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 19 - 70

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this study is to examine the effectiveness the Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) approach for the management patients with neck related headache that are referred to a hospital based out-patient physical therapy clinic.

Background: Headache conditions are among the most common complaints causing people to seek medical care. An estimated 14 billion dollars are spent annually on treating headaches. Neck related headache is characterized by pain which comes from the cervical spine (neck) and could be referred to the head and/or face. CGH is frequently managed clinically utilizing an MDT approach however to date there is limited research available examining the effectiveness of this intervention type in a population with CGH.

Conditions

Cervicogenic Headache

Study ID

NCT05212844

Start date

Dec 17, 2021

Status verified date

Jan, 2022

Completion date

Jul 31, 2022

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Jul 31, 2022

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 19 - 70

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Age 19-70
  • During the physical therapy examination, it is found that movements, static positions, or postures affect the patient headache symptoms.
  • Pain presents as unilateral or bilateral head/neck pain and/or stiffness
  • Headache frequency at least 1x/week
  • Headache symptoms are present for at least 3 months
  • Dizziness and/or tinnitus affected by neck movements or positions
  • Patient has been previously screened for their headache symptoms by their MD

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Headache is determined to be of non-cervical origin including migraine, cluster headache, tension-type headache
  • Malignancy/infection
  • Cranial or cervical vascular disorder
  • Substance use or withdrawal
  • Acute Post cervical surgery
  • Psychosis/psychiatric disorder/post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Received nerve block or Botox injections during therapy
  • Vertigo with nystagmus is present
  • Involved in litigation related to headache complaints

Study Design

Enrollment

20 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

Musculoskeletal Physical Therapy

Therapeutic exercise and manual physical therapy based on the individual response to end range repeated movements.

Primary outcome measure

  • Change from Baseline in Neck Disability Index (NDI) Scores to Discharge [ Time Frame: Baseline and 6 weeks ]
  • Change from Baseline in Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) Scores to discharge [ Time Frame: Baseline and 6 weeks ]
  • Change from Baseline in Headache Disability Index (HDI) Scores to Discharge [ Time Frame: Baseline and 6 weeks ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Ronald Schenk, PhD

716-566-8756ronald.schenk@tufts.edu

Eric Miller, DSc

716-912-9046millere@dyc.edu

Locations

Faith Regional Rehabilitation Therapies

Recruiting

Norfolk, Nebraska, United States, 68701

Contacts

Lin Pu, PT

402-644-7396ptlin@hotmail.com

More Information

Sponsor

Faith Regional Health Services

Last update posted

Jan 28, 2022

Last verified

Jan, 2022

Keywords

  • Cervicogenic Headache
  • McKenzie
  • Neck Pain

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Faith Regional Health Services on 2022-01-28.