Muscle-contraction headaches in multiple-pain patients: treatment under worsening baseline conditions
Lacroix, J.M.; Clarke, M.A.; Bock, J.C.; Doxey, N.C.
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 67(1): 14-18
1986
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-9993 PMID: 3510603 Document Number: 280026
A total of 55 muscle-contraction headache patients were divided into four groups which received frontalis EMG biofeedback, relaxation training, combined biofeedback-relaxation training, or no-treatment control. All patients were compensation patients undergoing assessment and brought to a high level of activity for the first time since going into chronicity. In all cases, onset or aggravation of the headaches coincided with the compensation-related injury. All treatment modalities led to significant but similar levels of improvement in headaches, while the control group worsened.