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Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT02746250
Date of registration: 13/04/2016
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Danish Headache Center
Public title: Muscle Soreness and Stiffness in Patients With Chronic or Frequent Episodic Tension Type Headache.
Scientific title: Muscle Soreness and Stiffness in Patients With Chronic or Frequent Episodic Tension Type Headache.
Date of first enrolment: March 2016
Target sample size: 46
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02746250
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Non-Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Basic Science. Masking: None (Open Label).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Denmark
Contacts
Name:     Henrik W Schytz, MD, DMSc
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Affiliation:  Danish Headache Center, Department of neurology, Rigshospitalet Glostrup
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Chronic Tension type headache or frequent episodic tension type headache with at least
ten episodes or more per month throughout three months or more.

- Pericranial muscle tenderness

Exclusion Criteria:

- Other primary headache disorder (with the exception of episodic migraine.)

- Pregnancy or ongoing breastfeeding

- Heart disease that contradicts treatment with amitriptyline

- Drug or substance abuse



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 65 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Tension-type Headache
Intervention(s)
Drug: Amitriptyline
Primary Outcome(s)
Change in Total Tenderness Score [Time Frame: March 2016 to march 2018. Up to 4 months.]
Change in Local Tenderness Score [Time Frame: March 2016 to march 2018. Up to 4 months.]
Change in muscle stiffness [Time Frame: March 2016 to march 2018. Up to 4 months.]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
H-16000619
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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