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The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to compare the effects of three behavioral strategies for the relief of migraine, and (b) to examine different combinations of the treatments to assess the effectiveness of multimodal biofeedback with this problem. Twenty-four volunteer migraine sufferers not on medication, and with at least weekly occurrence of headaches, participated in the study. Results indicated that (a) subjects who learned temporal cooling, frontalis relaxation, and progressive muscular relaxation exhibited the best success with headache relief; (b) control subjects, who did not show the same psychophysiological changes as experimental subjects, reported no headache relief; and (c) subjects in the group with only relaxation exercises performed similarly to control subjects and reported no headache relief.
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Gamble, E.H., Elder, S.T. Multimodal biofeedback in the treatment of migraine. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation 8, 383–392 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00998748
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