Efficacy of Study for Correlation of TTH vs Age and Gender Factors Using EMG Biofeedback Technique

Social Annals for TTH Along With Age

Everyone deals with stress at any point of time. Both young and old people have to face stress and tension. Due to various obstacles or hurdles prevailing in their lives. According to a study, the average age of onset of TTH is 25 to 30 years. It attains maximum peak between the ages of 30 to 39 which decreases slightly with age. Various studies reveal that the lifetime prevalence of TTH is 30% to 78%. The data from a study conducted in New Zealand reveals that 34.5% children in NZ aged up to 7-13 years suffer from frequent headaches. About 9% of these children suffer from TTH in adulthood (Rubin, 1992).

11.1% people of 26 years members are suffering from TTH and this rate increases to 17.5% at the age of 32 Years. Out of those suffering from TTH at the age of 32, 10.3% have infrequent episodic Tension type headache (ETTH), 87.2% have frequent TTH and 2.6% are suffering from chronic TTH. According to epidemiological studies, second decade is considered as the most common time period for the onset of TTH in individuals. However, these higher and chronic levels of TTH decreases after the age of 60 (Rastogi et al., 2018a).

A study conducted over 1972 individuals between 18-65 years of age revealed that TTH is prevalent in the age group of 40-49 years (35%). However, a significant decline in the number was observed after the age of 49.

Gender-Based Studies on Chronic TTH at a Glance

Studies reveal that TTH affects women slightly more than man. The female to male ratio of TTH is 5:4. As per a recent study, the rate of TTH is 1.6 times higher in females than males.

As per a study conducted over 1972 members aged between 18-65 years of age, 441 patients were diagnosed with TTH which constitutes about 22.3%. Out of this 22.3% people, 25% were women i.e. about 272 cases and 19% constitutes man which covers about 169 cases. This study also analyzed 68.4% females suffering from chronic TTH and 60.6% females from episodic TTH (Fumal et al., 2008).

So as per this study, 62.4% were female suffers and 37.5% male sufferers maintaining a ratio of 1.6:1. A study conducted in New Zealand, the prevalence of TTH in females is twice as compared to males. Chronic TTH was observed in 68.4% people and episodic TTH. The reports by various studies clearly reveals that female to male sufferer’s ratio ranges from 1.6:1 to 3:1.

Background and Purpose of Study With Experimental Setup

This study was conducted over a group of 230-250 subjects (patients) suffering from Tension Type headache. These subjects were divided into 7 groups and EMG therapy was experimented over them (Rastogi et al., 2018b).

All the three modes of EMG therapy-audio, visual, audio-visual was applied over all the patients over a period of 1 year. The observations were recorded after a time span of 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and so on. These observations were recorded and well analyzed on various parameters. For this study we correlated all the three modes of EMG with age and gender (Boureau et al., 1991).