Alternative Headache Treatments: Nutraceuticals, Behavioral and Physical Treatments

Alternative Headache Treatments: Nutraceuticals, Behavioral and Physical Treatments

There is a growing body of evidence supporting the efficacy of various complementary and alternative medicine approaches in the management of headache disorders. These treatment modalities include nutraceutical, physical and behavioral therapies. Nutraceutical options comprise vitamins and supplements (magnesium, riboflavin, coenzyme Q10, and alpha lipoic acid) and herbal preparations (feverfew...

Alternative headache treatments: nutraceuticals, behavioral, and physical treatments.

There is a growing body of evidence supporting the efficacy of various complementary and alternative medicine approaches in the management of headache disorders. These treatment modalities include nutraceutical, physical and behavioral therapies. Nutraceutical options comprise vitamins and supplements (magnesium, riboflavin, coenzyme Q(10), and alpha lipoic acid) and herbal preparations (feverf...

Evidence Report: Behavioral and Physical Treatments for Tension-type and Cervicogenic Headache

Non-invasive physical treatments for chronic/recurrent headache.

BACKGROUND Non-invasive physical treatments are often used to treat common types of chronic/recurrent headache. OBJECTIVES To quantify and compare the magnitude of short- and long-term effects of non-invasive physical treatments for chronic/recurrent headaches. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the following databases from their inception to November 2002: MEDLINE, EMBASE, BIOSIS, CINAHL, Science...

Probiotics and nutraceuticals: non-medicinal treatments of gastrointestinal diseases.

The demonstration that immune and epithelial cells can discriminate between different microbial and bioactive plant species has extended the known mechanism(s) of action of nutraceuticals and probiotics beyond simple nutrition and/or antimicrobial effects. The progressive unravelling of these plant and bacterial effects on systemic immune and intestinal epithelial cell function has led to new c...