![]() ![]() "It's improving the mood, decreasing depression. Gautam Sharma, a cardiology professor and head of the Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research (part of AIIMS). "Yoga brings down stress, and stress is a precipitant for migraine," said coauthor Dr. Given these circumstances, authors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, India, studied the effectiveness of yoga in tandem with medications for people with migraines.Īfter a three-month yoga intervention, the participants who practiced a specific yoga module in addition to taking medications had more success in reducing migraine intensity, frequency and the amount of medication they had to take in comparison to the medication-only group. ![]() Trials of previous studies lasted only about a month, or didn't specify the yoga type, duration or timing, the report said. For some people, medications cause negative side effects or don't completely take away the pain, said Andrew Russo, who holds two professorships at the University of Iowa - one in molecular physiology and biophysics and another in neurology. Though medications are the first resort for treatment, only about half of migraine patients find luck with them, the study reported.
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