Will the Use of Osteopathic Manipulative Treatments Help Alleviate Headache Pain

Status unconfirmed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Headache

In brief

PURPOSE The purpose of this research is to determine whether osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMT) is a useful adjunct in evaluation and treatment of headaches. PROCEDURES If a practitioner determines that a patient has a significant headache he/she may order tests. He/ She may give the patient medications to treat the headache. The investigators will also ask permission to evaluate and treat the headache using osteopathic evaluation and Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment (OMT). The bedside evaluation and treatment will be performed by an emergency medicine resident. Osteopathic evaluation and OMT is not standard of care for this condition. The investigators also may call the patient in 7 days to see how they are doing. The investigators wish to see if emergency medicine physicians can use osteopathic evaluation and OMT to reliably treat headaches. The results of the examination and treatment will be recorded, but will not be used to change treatment or to change additional tests. The investigators wish to see whether in the future they can use OMT in certain cases instead of or in conjunction with medications. The investigators plan on asking 50 patients to participate.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01704625

Run by

Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, New York

People needed

50

Starts

2012-01-01

Expected to finish

2012-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-10-11

Who can join

Age: 21 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients will be triaged to the appropriate part of the Emergency Department in the usual fashion. A healthcare provider will evaluate the patient and if the patient's chief complaint is headache the provider will determine if they are a candidate for the study utilizing exclusion criteria for the study -

You may not qualify if…

• Exclusion Criteria for the Study
• Temperature 100.4 or greater
• Healthcare provider suspects meningitis, brain abscess, encephalitis
• Altered mental status
• History of trauma
• Cyclic vomiting
• Abdominal migraines
• Analgesic medication taken prior to treatment within an hour
• Providing physician suspects intracranial hemorrhage
• Focal deficits or other neurological abnormalities that lead providing physician to suspect a pathologic process in which osteopathic treatment would not be safe for the patient
• Providing physician feels osteopathic treatment would not be safe for the patient

Where it is running

• Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center — West Islip, New York, United States (enrolling)

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