Teens Suffer From Migraines

Teens Suffer From Migraines.
A predetermined type of therapy helps convert the number of migraines and migraine-related disabilities in children and teens, according to a new study. The findings provision strong evidence for the use of "cognitive behavioral therapy" - which includes training in coping with injure - in managing chronic migraines in children and teens, said con leader Scott Powers, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and colleagues. The remedy should be routinely offered as a first-line treatment, along with medications.

More than 2 percent of adults and about 1,75 percent of children have lasting migraines, according to the study, which was published in the Dec 25, 2013 stream of the Journal of the American Medical Association. But there are no treatments approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to crush these debilitating headaches in young people, the researchers said. The scan included 135 youngsters, aged 10 to 17, who had migraines 15 or more days a month.

They were assigned to collect either 10 cognitive behavioral therapy sessions or 10 headache drilling sessions. Patients in both groups were treated with the drug amitriptyline. At the start of the study, patients averaged migraines on 21 of 28 days, and had a wicked level of migraine-related disability. Immediately after treatment, those in the cognitive-therapy corps had 11,5 fewer days with migraines, compared with 6,8 fewer days for those in the headache-education group.

Twelve months after treatment, 86 percent of those who received cognitive cure had a 50 percent or more reduction in days with migraines, compared with 69 percent of those in the headache-education group. In addition, 88 percent of patients in the cognitive-therapy number had inoffensive or no migraine-related disability, compared with 76 percent of those in the other group. Cognitive remedial programme should not be offered only as an add-on treatment if medications aren't working well, the researchers said.

It also should be covered by healthfulness insurance. However, use of cognitive group therapy as a first-line treatment for chronic migraines in children and teens faces a number of barriers, according to an accompanying article by Mark Connelly, of Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City. Having behavioral fitness consultants in primary-care offices is one possible way to overcome these barriers as example. Telephone-based or Internet-based programs might also be effective.