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...

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

Behavioral management of recurrent headache: three decades of experience and empiricism.

In the past three decades, behavioral interventions (chiefly relaxation, biofeedback, and stress-management) have become standard components of the armamentarium for management of migraine and tension-type headaches. Meta-analytic literature reviews of these behavioral interventions have consistently identified clinically significant reductions in recurrent headache. Across studies, behavioral ...

Behavioral headache treatment: history, review of the empirical literature, and methodological critique.

Theoretical developments and burgeoning research on stress and illness in the mid-20th century yielded the foundations necessary to conceptualize headache as a psychophysiological disorder and eventually to develop and apply contemporary behavioral headache treatments. Over the past three decades, these behavioral headache treatments (relaxation training, biofeedback, cognitive-behavioral thera...

Nutraceuticals for the prevention of migraine in children: Do we know what the benefits and the risks are?

Children with headache have limited evidence-based preventive options. When pharmacological measures are considered, it is not surprising that children are using agents considered to be complementary and alternative in dealing with their headaches. Unfortunately, the use of many of these (and other) headache preventives has outpaced the research which may show clear evidence for their use, or, ...