title: Biofeedback-assisted relaxation training for young adolescents with tension-type headache: a controlled study.
abstract: Tension-type headache is common in children and adolescents and is generally treated with medication, but emerging literature suggests that various behavioral treatments may provide efficacious alternatives to medication. Juvenile tension-type headache sufferers were randomly assigned to biofeedback-assisted relaxation continued to improve and were superior to the control condition at a 6- and 12-month follow-up (86% versus 50%). Biofeedback-assisted relaxation appears to be an efficacious and durable treatment for juvenile tension-type headache and merits further exploration.
authors.affiliation: Headache Center, National Neurological Institute C. Besta, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bussone
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Grazzi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: D'Amico
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leone
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Andrasik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D002648:Child; D004576:Electromyography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011603:Psychophysiology; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D018781:Tension-Type Headache / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome