Yoga as Add-On Therapy for Prevention of Episodic Migraine

To determine if practice of a specific yoga sequence in addition to standard-of-care medical therapy (SoC) is superior to SoC alone in the prevention of episodic migraine, investigators performed a prospective, single-center, randomized, controlled trial. Of 160 patients randomized, 114 patients, evenly divided between treatment arms, completed the 3-month trial. The primary endpoint was change in mean monthly headache days (MMHDs) from baseline to 3 months.

Significant reductions in MMHDs in both arms were observed, although significantly greater in the yoga group. The difference in the change in MMHDs between arms was 3.53 days. Furthermore, both treatment arms reported significant improvements in quality of life (according to the Headache…