Mindfulness and pharmacological prophylaxis after withdrawal from medication overuse in patients with Chronic Migraine: an effectiveness trial with a one-year follow-up.
The Journal of Headache and Pain December 2017 Licia Grazzi, Emanuela Sansone, Alberto Raggi et al.
Chronic Migraine (CM) is a disabling condition, worsened when associated with Medication Overuse (MO). Mindfulness is an emerging technique, effective in different pain conditions, but it has yet to be explored for CM-MO. We report the results of a study assessing a one-year course of patients' status, with the hypothesis that the effectiveness of a mindfulness-based approach would be similar...
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Mindfulness
Chronic migraine
Medication overuse
Pharmacological prophylaxis