{"id":514,"date":"2006-06-23T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=514"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:19:12","slug":"more-migraine-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/more-migraine-options\/","title":{"rendered":"More migraine options"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glenn Reynolds<\/a> insta-blogged yesterday about this gadget, that uses a magnetic pulse to stave off a budding migraine.<\/p>\n

There’s also this<\/a>, which I found out about through my friend Dave Harney, who publishes Rochester Healthy Living<\/em>: an FDA-approved device you wear on your front teeth at night to reduce jaw clenching. The company claims in trials, 82 percent of the device users had a 77% average reduction in “migraine events.”<\/p>\n

Here’s the manufacturer’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here are some interesting facts about the link between headache and jaw clenching (one caveat: these aren’t sourced . . .):<\/p>\n

* [The j]aw clenching muscles of migraine sufferers are 70% larger in volume and generate significantly higher bite forces that control subjects . . .<\/p>\n

*Tension-type headache patients contract their temporalis muscles (clench their jaw) during sleep, on average, 14 times more intensely that asymptomatic controls.<\/p>\n

*Simple minimal voluntary jaw-clenching (of less than 30% of maximum effort) for 30 minutes (with two rest periods) still results in a headache for 63% of migraine sufferers. Jaw clenching during sleep can frequently exceed voluntary maximum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t tried the device, but I plan to. Ever since I learned about it I’ve made a conscious effort to relax my jaw and that seems to be helping me avoid full-blown migraines. I really think there’s something to this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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