International Yoga Day 2020: Yoga helps in reducing migraine pain

Yoga can be helpful in reducing not just the pain, but also the treatment cost of migraines, a new study has found. The study conducted by AIIMS was published in the online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, according to a statement by AIIMS.

The new research suggests that yoga may help people with migraine and result in headaches that happen less often, don't last as long and are less painful.

"Medications are the first-line treatment for migraine, but they work for only about half of patients, and many drugs have side effects that make about 10 percent of people stop using them," it said.

"The results (of the study) showed that yoga can reduce not just the pain, but also the treatment cost of migraines. This is, until now, the largest randomised trial evaluating yoga as a therapeutic tool for migraine," it said.

For the study, about 114 patients with episodic migraine were recruited to one of two groups. Study says that Yoga is an ancillary therapy in episodic migraine is superior to medical therapy alone.