Alternative Therapies

Music Relieves Migraines

by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Two recent studies suggest that music can relieve migraine headaches in children and relieve pain.

In a study of 58 children with migraine headaches published in the European Journal of Pain music therapy was compared to a placebo pill and an herbal supplement, butterbur.

Magnesium for Migraine Prevention

by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Magnesium is effective in preventing migraine headaches, according to a new study published in the journal Magnesium Research.

The researchers found that patients treated with magnesium, compared to those treated with placebo, had fewer migraine attacks and the attacks were milder.

Vitamin D and Migraine Headaches

by Dr. Alexander Mauskop

Vitamin D deficiency has become a very popular topic in lay and professional literature, and deservedly so.

Vitamin D is important not only for bone health, but for normal functioning of many organs. Its deficiency appears to be much more common than it was previously suspected.

A recent survey by Beatrice Golomb and her colleagues which was reported by Reuters Health discovered that when patients reported adverse reactions to drugs their doctors routinely denied that the drug was responsible for these side effects.

To a great extent this is due to doctor’s lack of knowledge about potential side effects, but I suspect it is also because doctors have an unreasonable degree of reliance and faith in drugs.