Summaries of Must-Read Clinical Literature, Guidelines, and FDA Actions

Yoga is a good adjunct to migraine therapy

Publish date:: May 14, 2020

Key clinical point: Yoga plus antimigraine medication is more effective than medication alone.

Major finding: Mean headache days per month dropped by 49% in patients after addition of a yoga program to their standard antimigraine medications.

Study details: The single-center, open-label, 3-month, blinded-assessment CONTAIN trial included 160 adult episodic migraine patients randomized to standard antimigraine medications alone or with an add-on migraine-specific yoga program.

Disclosures: The investigators reported having no financial conflicts regarding their study, funded by the Government of India and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Citation:

Kumar A et al. Neurology. 2020 May 6. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009473.

This Week's Must Reads

COVID-19 vaccine found effective but doctors watching for reactions, adverse events,

Study links sleep meds and dementia risk in older adults,

Childhood Hodgkin survivors have neurocognitive impairment,

Obesity, hypoxia predict severity in children with COVID-19,

Long-term safety and efficacy of teriflunomide for relapsing MS,

Must Reads in Headache & Migraine

HIT-6 may help track meaningful change in chronic migraine,

Choroid plexuses may play a role in migraine,

Multiple traits more common in difficult-to-treat patients with migraine,

Marijuana for migraine? Some tentative evidence,

Low vitamin D levels in patients with migraine,