Mangement of Cervicogenic Headache by Maual Therapy (NCT07310823) | Clinical Trial Compass
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Mangement of Cervicogenic Headache by Maual Therapy
Egypt57 participantsStarted 2025-12-20
Plain-language summary
This study aims to investigate immediate and short-term effect of combining suboccipital myofascial release with Maitland mobilization techniques on headache intensity, duration, and frequency, CFRT, upper cervical ROM, general neck mobility, and PPT of upper trapezius and suboccipital muscles.
Who can participate
Age range20 Years – 40 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria
Each patient will be included in our study if only he/she meets all of the following criteria:
* Age between 20- 40 year.
* No physiotherapy intervention at least for the last three months (Mohamed et al., 2019).
* Neck pain elicited and disturbed by neck movement or maintained position pain produced by pressure over upper cervical (Dunning et al.,2021).
* Limited neck motion with flexion and rotation test less than or equal 32 degree on both right and left side (Dunning et al.,2021).
* Patients suffered from intermittent headaches of varying duration and pain level at least once every week through the last 3 months (Hall et al., 2010; Khalil., et al 2019).
The patient will be excluded if he /she meets one of the following criteria:
* Physical therapy intervention during last three months (Mohamed et al., 2019).
* Primary headaches such as migraine or tension type headache (Mohammadi et al.,2021).
* Cervical radiculopathy, history of neck trauma and previous surgery at neck or shoulder, spondylosis (Mohammadi et al.,2021).
* Vertebrobasilar insufficiency or vestibular dysfunctions (Mohamed et al., 2019).
* Any degenerative vertebral lesion (Shabbir et al., 2021).
* Concomitant medical diagnosis of any primary headache (tension type or migraine) (Shabbir et al., 2021).
What they're measuring
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headache intensity
Timeframe: Time Frame: before treatment and one week after treatment