Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Treatment and Prophylaxis of Chronic Migraine in Patients With no Prophylactic Treatment for the Last 3 Months

Sohag University60 enrolled

Overview

Compared with the patients with episodic migraine those with chronic migraine have worst quality of life and more severe headache related disability we investigate Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in treatment and prophylaxis of chronic migraine

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Chronic Migraine

Interventions

transcranial magnetic stimulation deviceDEVICE

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation parameters: stimulation site: left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left motor cortex intensity: 70% of resting motor threshold frequency: 15 Hz number of pulses: 30

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion criteria: * A study sample of patients with chronic migraine according to international classification of headache disorders-3 (ICHD-3). * Patients are regular on follow up visits. Exclusion criteria: * Patients with depression by Hamiliton scale of depression by using its Arabic version Translated by Dr Lotfy Fateem * patients on prophylactic medications for chronic migraine. * pregnancy. * cochlear implants, cardiac pacemaker, and metal body implanted in head-and-neck region. * Patients refused to give informed consent. * History of seizures.

Locations (1)

Sohag faculty of medicine

Sohag, Egypt

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

improvement of headache severity and number of attacks of headache before and after intervention by visual analogue scale and headache impact test

Time frame: one month after treatment

Central Contacts

Tarek Mohamed

CONTACT

01025545002 tarikmohamed@med.sohag.edu.eg

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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