ReviewSchmerz (Berlin, Germany)2018
[Progressive muscle relaxation according to Jacobson for migraine prophylaxis : Clinical effectiveness and mode of action].
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prescription of therapeutic exercise in migraine, an evidence-based clinical practice guideline.The journal of headache and pain · 2023Guideline
- Pooled it
- The Temporal Associations of Neck Pain and Headache - Implications for the Diagnostic Approach to the Myofascial Involvement in Migraine.Journal of central nervous system disease · 2025Article
- Incorporating Therapeutic Education and Exercise in Migraine Management: A Biobehavioral Approach.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Relationship between Contingent Negative Variation and afterimage duration in migraine patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Unveiling the Role of Contingent Negative Variation (CNV) in Migraine: A Review of Electrophysiological Studies in Adults and Children.Biomedicines · 2023Review
- Conceptualising migraine attacks from a biopsychosocial model using qualitative and functional behavioural analysis.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2023Article
- Observational
- [Interdisciplinary pain psychology II : Risk factors, diagnostic workup, therapy and transfer in clinical practice].Schmerz (Berlin, Germany) · 2018Article
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Abstract
Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) after Jacobson has been used for migraine prophylaxis since the early 1970s. Migraine patients are assumed to have an enhanced autonomic arousal which can be counterbalanced by systematic relaxation. Relaxation techniques are thought to reduce the activation level, to alter cortical pain processing and to enhance activation in pain-reducing cortical structures in the periaqueductal grey matter. Meta-analyses could show PMR to be just as efficacious as pharmacological treatment options. A beneficial effect can only arise if regular daily exercises of 5-25 min are performed and the exercises are transferred into the daily routine. This review critically summarizes the empirical findings concerning the effects of PMR on migraine. A lack of recent research on this topic was determined. In a study by this group 50 migraine patients and 46 healthy controls were examined. It could be shown that in addition to the clinical efficacy on migraine frequency, changes in cortical information processing, measured by means of the evoked potential contingent negative variation (CNV) could also be determined. The initially increased CNV amplitude became normalized after regular PMR training in migraine patients. With the review of PMR studies on migraine prophylaxis and the results of our own study it could be shown that PMR is an efficacious non-pharmacological treatment option for migraine prophylaxis. In addition to its clinical effects, alterations in cortical stimulation processing in terms of a normalization of the CNV could be documented.
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