This Study Will Be Conducted to Stuidy the Effect of Cognitive Behavior Threapy CBT on Smartphone Addiction Patients with Tension Type Headache

Launched by HATEM MOSTAFA · Oct 5, 2024

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This clinical trial is investigating whether a type of therapy called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can help adults who experience tension-type headaches and have smartphone addiction. The researchers want to see if adding CBT to standard physical therapy (which includes hands-on treatment and exercises) can improve headache symptoms, reduce pain sensitivity, and help correct poor posture often associated with smartphone use.

To participate in this study, individuals need to be between the ages of 19 and 34 and have been diagnosed with frequent tension-type headaches for at least three months. Participants will receive a total of twelve treatment sessions over six weeks, which will take place twice a week. This trial is not yet recruiting volunteers, but if you're interested, it's important to know that certain medical conditions or recent treatments may exclude someone from joining.

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • - 1- Subjects were those diagnosed with tension type headache by neurologists based on the criteria of the International Headache Society (2013).
• • 2- age between 19-34 (Csibi, S., et al, 2021). 3- International Headache Society diagnostic criteria of tension type headaches: (Espí-López et al, 2016).
• • Frequent ETTH or CTTH diagnosed, in both cases more than three months.
• * Episodes of pain from 30 minutes to 7 days Fulfil 2 or more of the following characteristics:
• • 1. Bilateral location of pain.
• • 2. Non-pulsatile pain pressure.
• • 3. Pain mild to moderate.
• • 4. The headache does not increase with physical activity.
• • 5. The headache may be associated with pericranial tenderness.
• • 6. Controlled pharmacologically. 4- Myofascial TrPs were bilaterally explored in upper trapezius, splenius capitis, sternocleidomastoid, masseter, superior oblique, levator scapulae and suboccipital muscles, TrP diagnosis was conducted following the diagnostic criteria: (Shah, J. P., et al 2015).
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• • 1. presence of a palpable taut band within a skeletal muscle.
• • 2. presence of a hypersensitive tender spot in the taut band.
• • 3. local twitch response elicited by snapping palpation of the taut band reproduction of the typical referred pain pattern of the TrP in response to compression.
• • TrPs were considered active if both the local and the referred pain evoked by manual palpation reproduced total or partial pattern of the headache (Shah, J. P., et al 2015).
• • 5- Patients with FHP who have craniovertebral angle less than 49 degrees were included (Abhilash, P., et al, 2021). Forward head posture is measured by calculating the angle between the horizontal line passing through C7 and a line extending from the tragus of the ear to C7.
• • 6- patients with smartphone addiction who will score 31 for males and 33 for females on smartphone addiction scale - short version (Kwon, M., et al, 2013).
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. rheumatoid arthritis. 2. suspected malignancy. 3. pregnancy. 4. if they had received manual therapy treatment in the 2 months before enrolment into the study.
• • 5. Patients with infrequent episodic tension type headache, or with probable frequent and infrequent forms of tension type headache or other concomitant headache.
• • 6. They can never have vomiting or headache episodes during the treatment. 7. Episodic tension type headache patients may experience very occasionally photophobia or phonophobia during their episodes of headache.
• • 8. Chronic tension type headache patients may experience very occasionally photophobia, phonophobia or mild nausea during headache episodes.
• • 9. Pain aggravated by movement of the head. 10. Metabolic or musculoskeletal problems with similar headache symptoms. 11. Previous trauma to the cervical spine. 12. Active vertigo history. 13. Poorly controlled hypertension. 14. Atherosclerosis. 15. Advanced osteoarthritis. 16. Patients undergoing pharmacological adaptation or changes in the prophylactic medication.
• • 17. Excessive emotional stress. 18. Patients with heart devices. 19. Joint instability. 20. Neurological disorders. 21. Laxity of cervical soft tissues. 22. Radiographic abnormalities. 23. Generalized hyperlaxity or hypermobility.