Abstract
group treated with PT clearly showed a reduction in all treatment outcomes during the study compared to the group taking A. VAS modification, the number of attacks and the number of analgesics taken during the study are shown in Figure 2 for the patients diagnosed with MO. The group treated with PT clearly showed a reduction in all treatment outcomes during the study compared to the group taking A. Conclusions Our clinical observation of an improvement in headache in patients receiving PT led us to conduct this cohort study comparing PT with A therapy. Although this study is obviously limited because of the absence of patient randomization, its results confirm the clinical impression of an improvement in the primary headache in patients with PT in terms of improvement in VAS, reduction in the number of attacks/month, and the consumption of analgesics/month. In fact, PT treatment was found to be more efficacious when compared to A treatment in many outcome measures. Written informed consent to publish was obtained from the patient(s).
Highlights
We conducted an observational study of patients attending our outpatient headache clinic, suffering from episodic tension-type headache (ETTH) and migraine without aura (MO)
The visual analogue scale (VAS) modifications, the number of attacks and the number of analgesics taken during the study are shown in Figure 1 for the patients diagnosed with ETTH
The group treated with pineal tens (PT) clearly showed a reduction in all treatment outcomes during the study compared to the group taking A
Summary
We conducted an observational study of patients attending our outpatient headache clinic, suffering from episodic tension-type headache (ETTH) and migraine without aura (MO). The purpose of the study was to compare the efficacy of magnesium bisglycinate, L-tryptophan, niacin, vitamin B2 and vitamin D, pineal tens (PT) and amitriptyline (A) in the prophylaxis [1-4] of these primary headaches using as outcomes: pain modification with visual analogue scale (VAS); the change in the number of attacks/month; the change in the consumption of analgesics/month
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