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No matter how we manage our health, efficacy, risks and costing are top concernsNo benefits of Botox (botolinum toxin A) treatment for cervicogenic headache
Contrary with previous findings that said Botox (botulinum toxin A) seem had additional potential in several therapeutic areas likes a neuromuscular disorder involving the head and neck, migraine headache, and headaches caused muscle tension or cervicogenic headache, current randomized crossover trial among 29 patients with long-standing and treatment-resistant cervicogenic headache by Dr. Mattias Linde of St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, and colleagues said that botox injections into neck muscles did not improve refractory cervicogenic headache.
The current findings just reported in Cephalalgia on February 7, 2011.
Botox (botulinum toxin A) has been used to treat various neuromuscular junction disorders including patients who had the eyes with same direction, patients with involuntary contraction of eyelid muscles, spasms of the neck muscles, other dystonias, irritability of the facial nerve, and anal incontinence.
Meanwhile, although the side effects in this trial were minor and brief, those received injections of onabotulinum toxin A, or saline, at fixed sites in the neck muscles on the pain side, at least 8 weeks later, patients crossed over to the opposite arm and received a second round of injections. All were followed again for another 8 weeks.
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