Biofeedback-assisted relaxation training for young adolescents with tension-type headache: A controlled study
Abstract
Tension-type headache is common in children and adolescents and is generally treated with medication, but emerging literature suggests that various behavioral treatments may provide efficacious alternatives to medication. Juvenile tension-type headache sufferers were randomly assigned to biofeedback-assisted relaxation or relaxation placebo and followed for 1 year. Following treatment, both conditions led to sizeable headache reductions (approximately 50%). Over time, children receiving biofeedback- assisted relaxation continued to improve and were superior to the control condition at a 6- and 12-month follow-up (86% versus 50%). Biofeedback- assisted relaxation appears to be an efficacious and durable treatment for juvenile tension-type headache and merits further exploration.
Publication Title
Cephalalgia
Recommended Citation
Bussone, G., Grazzi, L., D'Amico, D., Leone, M., & Andrasik, F. (1998). Biofeedback-assisted relaxation training for young adolescents with tension-type headache: A controlled study. Cephalalgia, 18 (7), 463-467. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1468-2982.1998.1807463.x
