Effectiveness of manual therapy compared to usual care by the general practitioner for chronic tension-type headache: design of a randomised clinical trial

Table 1 Summary of data collection.

	Baseline	After 8 weeks	After 26 weeks	Measurement
Sociodemographics	X			Single items
Treatment expectations	X			7-point rating scale
Primary outcome measures
Headache frequency	X	X	X	Headache diary
Medication use	X	X	X	Headache diary
Secondary outcome measures
Headache pain intensity	X	X	X	10 points scale
Headache Impact on daily life	X	X	X	HIT-6 HDI
Active range of movement Cervical spine	X	X	X	CROM
Algometry M. Trapezius and suboccipital muscles	X	X	X	Algometer
Craniocervical angle	X	X	X	Digital photo
Endurance neck flexor muscles	X	X	X	Neck flexor endurance test
Use of health care resources			X	Checklist

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