Renowned plastic surgeon Leonard W. Glass, MD, was a guest on the popular radio talk show “Forever Young” on San Diego’s KCBQ 1170 AM several years ago when he stated how he and other plastic surgeons had observed that many of their patients had found relief from migraine headaches as an outcome of botox treatments for cosmetic reasons.
He proceeded to point out that, for those patients who experienced relief from migraines as the result of botox treatments – specifically those injected into the forehead – it was a probably an indication that the migraines could be eliminated entirely by either severing or removing the muscle tissue or nerves that triggered the migraines in the first place.
Sure enough, a recent study published in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and funded by the Migraine Foundation (http://www.migraineresearchfoundation.org/), the Plastic Surgery Education Fund, and the Prentiss Foundation (http://esprentissfoundation.org/history.htm), seems to confirm the observations of Glass and his colleagues.
"Other migraine treatments either temporarily prevent the symptoms or they may reduce the symptoms after the migraine headaches start," says Bahman Guyuron, M.D., professor and the chair of the department of plastic surgery at the University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University in a quote to CNNHealth.com. "What we are offering is essentially a cure."
According to Guyuron, there was a 92% success rate. "This study offers powerful evidence to the plastic surgeon, the neurologist, and the insurance companies that this operation is effective," he says. "Not only are they headache free, depending on the trigger site, but they also may look younger."
Source: Health Magazine 2009 (http://www.health.com/health/)
Jim Evans is a 42-year veteran of the health and fitness industry and internationally recognized fitness consultant.