Migraines affect millions of people every month and to calm the pain, many chain different types of drugs. Effective Method? Not really when you consider the unpleasant side effects (mental fatigue, upset stomach, etc. . ) .
A new study may change the lives of migraine . The journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery found that surgery in one of three trigger points would reduce the number of migraine headaches . Thus, 80% of patients in the trial of the real surgery have noticed a positive change against 55% of patients who underwent sham surgery. Even 55% of guinea pigs surgery proclaimed to be " fully healed " against only 4% in the placebo group .
Strange discovery ? Indeed! Dr. Bahman Guyuron , a plastic surgeon and author of the study , facelifts practiced on the front of his patients mainly to smooth frown without realizing that this procedure go change their lives ... twice ! There are about 10 years after his patients have told him that their migraines had also undergone a change postoperatively this scientist began to seek a surgical solution to migraines. He defined three trigger points - where the headache starts and installs its ravages - : the forehead, temples and back of the head . Of course, a plastic surgeon who is interested in neurological problems facing many critics. "I would have been skeptical if a neurologist showed me a new technique for a facelift . But, honestly , I would have kept my mind open , "said Dr. Guyuron New York Times .
The theory that explains the phenomenon still remains simple. Some migraines are caused when nerve branches are oppressed by muscles. Thus , in the unblocking it provides relief . However, impossible for the moment whether the miracles of surgery remain without headaches for the rest of their lives. Also, other specialists took care to emphasize that surgery is not a panacea and it relieves some types of migraine . But there is something to dream ... " A very large proportion of migraine sufferers have released headaches for a year through surgery , which is a fantastic result ," said Dr. Richard B. Lipton , Director the Montefiore Headache Center in the Bronx.
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