Complementart treatments

Many many migraineurs have experimented with complementary therapies. Many experience an effect for a limited time after a treatment.

Some treatments have been subjected to one or a few tests that are published in scientific journals, which also publishes the clinical trials of new drugs. Within the established medicine, the results of a single test is rarely adequate.

Unfortunately, there is usually only one or maybe a few trials of most alternative treatments, and often there is not a control group receiving placebo.

Placebo effect, ie. the impact achieved by providing dummy 'medicine' such as calcium tablets is therefore not deducted, and the reults provide readers with a false sense of effect.

The personal contact, obtained during the complementary therapies, may also have a soothing effect.

*: Migrænikerforbundet has found one or a few experiments  published in medical journals for each of these treatments. A single study is unfortunately no guarantee that the treatment works in general.