SPINAL MANIPULATION AS EFFECTIVE FOR MIGRAINE AS AMITRIPTYLINE IN 218-PATIENT STUDY.

HealthInform: Essential Information on Alternative Health Care, July, 1999

A research team from the Northwest College of Chiropractic, located in Bloomington, MN, put the efficacy of spinal manipulation in the prevention of migraine headache to the test by comparing it with that of a commonly helpful pharmaceutical treatment -- amitriptyline. The prospective study included 218 patients of a chiropractic outpatient clinic who were randomly assigned to one of three groups receiving: (1) spinal manipulation; (2) amitriptyline; (3) both. The study began with four weeks of baseline data accumulation, followed by eight weeks of treatment and four weeks of follow-up. Headache index scores, arrived at through headache diaries kept daily by the patients, determined the study's outcome.

Results: All three groups showed clinical improvement,...

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