Yoga can improve migraine and related stress disorders – a study from Meerut, North India
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Abstract
Background
Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder mainly affects youth during their most productive age. Despite the need for a perfect treatment of this debilitating condition, the ideal “cure” is yet to be established. Conventional medical therapy is effective but it has different side effects. Alternative medicine researches are still in progress. Integrated therapy of conventional medicine and yoga may prove to be effective against migraine.
Methods
This study included 60 patients, with signs and symptoms of migraine without aura. Patients were divided into two groups, with each group having thirty patients. Group-A (treated with conventional medical therapy alone) and group-B, (treated with conventional medical therapy combined with yoga) for six months. Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS), pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), and migraine disability assessment test (MIDAS) questionnaires were used in this study. Students’t’ test was performed.
Results
In this study it has been observed that patients in group B showed a marked significant improvement in migraine status (P<0.001), sleep (P<0.001), depression & anxiety (P<0.001).
Conclusion
Integrated medical therapeutic approach with yoga is beneficial in treating migraine and some selective associated mood disorders as compared to conventional medical therapy. However further studies are required.
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