Key result
Yoga therapy combined with conventional care significantly reduced monthly headache frequency to 1.8 episodes per month compared to 5.2 episodes per month with conventional care alone.
Why the study?
Does Yoga as an adjuvant therapy improve clinical outcomes and autonomic functions in migraine patients?
RCT (n=60)
Open-label
Concealed allocation protocol
No
Does Yoga as an adjuvant therapy improve clinical outcomes and autonomic functions in migraine patients?
Absolute Event Rate: 1.8% vs 5.2%
p-value: p=<0.001
Yoga as an adjuvant therapy to conventional care significantly improves headache frequency, intensity, and cardiac autonomic balance in migraine patients.
Supports adding yoga to conventional migraine care; confirms benefits for headache frequency and autonomic balance in this RCT.
CONTEXT AND AIMS: Migraine is an episodic disabling headache requiring long-term management. Migraine management through Yoga therapy would reduce the medication cost with positive health benefits. Yoga has shown to improve the quality of life, reduce the episode of headache and medication. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of Yoga as an adjuvant therapy in migraine patients by assessing clinical outcome and autonomic functions tests. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Migraine patients were randomly given either conventional care (n = 30) or Yoga with conventional care (n = 30). Yoga group received Yoga practice session for 5 days a week for 6 weeks along with conventional care. Clinical assessment (frequency, intensity of headache and headache impact) and autonomic function test were done at baseline and at the end of the intervention. RESULTS: Yoga with conventional care and convention care groups showed significant improvement in clinical variables, but it was better with Yoga therapy. Improvement in the vagal tone along with reduced sympathetic activity was observed in patients with migraine receiving Yoga as adjuvant therapy. CONCLUSIONS: Intervention showed significant clinical improvement in both groups. Headache frequency and intensity were reduced more in Yoga with conventional care than the conventional care group alone. Furthermore, Yoga therapy enhanced the vagal tone and decreased the sympathetic drive, hence improving the cardiac autonomic balance. Thus, Yoga therapy can be effectively incorporated as an adjuvant therapy in migraine patients.
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Sathyaprabha et al. (2014) conducted an RCT in Migraine (n=60). Yoga therapy with conventional care vs. Conventional care alone was evaluated on Headache frequency (episodes per month) (p=<0.001). Yoga therapy combined with conventional care significantly reduced monthly headache frequency to 1.8 episodes per month compared to 5.2 episodes per month with conventional care alone.
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