{"id":1193,"date":"2017-07-07T11:39:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T10:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2018-06-21T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:23:50","slug":"1193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/07\/07\/1193\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlled temperature change inside ear can prevent migraines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volunteers in the study who had a history of migraines experienced a significant reduction in the number of migraines they normally experienced in a month after using a technique known as caloric vestibular stimulation (CVS).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CVS activates the balance organs which are believed to alter activity in the area of the brain, known as the brainstem, associated with the onset of migraine headaches.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/people\/wilkinsond\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr David Wilkinson<\/a> helped lead the randomised, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial. It was carried out across the US and UK, involving 81 volunteers with a history of between four and 14 migraine attacks per month.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers self-administered caloric vestibular stimulation daily for 20 minutes over a period of three months. The thermal currents were delivered by aluminium earpieces seated within padded headphones, powered and controlled by a small, hand-held device.<\/p>\n<p>The findings demonstrated that the treatment reduced both the number of migraine days per month (the active treatment group experienced a reduction of 3.6 days compared to 0.9 days in the placebo group) as well as headache pain and the consequent need for migraine abortive prescription medications.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the Kent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/uncategorized\/14389\/controlled-temperature-change-inside-ear-can-prevent-migraines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News Centre<\/a> pages. Full research available <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/head.13120\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers in the study who had a history of migraines experienced a significant reduction in the number of migraines they normally experienced in a month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2017\/07\/07\/1193\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14803,"featured_media":1489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[140630,3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}