transmission of pain signals from the brain.
By impeding these neurochemicals transporting this pain impulse across a synapse to the nerve endings stationed around your neck and head, botox alleviates that pain traditionally associated with migraine.
And yes, there is sufficient scientific documentation to back this capacity. In a study, patients struggling with chronic migraine headaches had botox shots administered on them.
Such therapy resulted in a significant drop in the number of days they suffered chronic headaches in a month.
Another study was equally exciting. 50% of the participants who had double botox shots administered reported a dramatic 50% slash in the number of days they experienced headaches in a month.
Furthermore, by the fifth treatment round, 7 in 10 of the participants were found to have their monthly headache incidence frequency slashed in half.
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How is Botox therapy carried out?
When treated by botox, the patient gets Botox injected around his or her neck and head once in three months. This aims at suppressing the migraine. Within the first 14-21 days after the first round, patients can expect the results to start manifesting.
A complete botox therapy could mean a specialized doctor (acquainted with managing migraine with botox – instead of getting your botox shots from cosmeticians) injecting you with up to 40 botox shots.
Typically, the same count of shots is administered on each side of your head. However, in situations where the patient has localized migraine (say in one site), then that pain site could need to be injected more.
The prevalent sites where botox shots are administered include your