Teens suffer from migraines.
A determined personification of therapy helps reduce the number of migraines and migraine-related disabilities in children and teens, according to a callow study. The findings require strong evidence for the use of "cognitive behavioral therapy" - which includes training in coping with agony - in managing confirmed migraines in children and teens, said enquiry leader Scott Powers, of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and colleagues worldplusmed.net. The remedy should be routinely offered as a first-line treatment, along with medications.
More than 2 percent of adults and about 1,75 percent of children have lingering migraines, according to the study, which was published in the Dec 25, 2013 culmination of the Journal of the American Medical Association. But there are no treatments approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to subdue these debilitating headaches in babies people, the researchers said. The investigation included 135 youngsters, venerable 10 to 17, who had migraines 15 or more days a month.
