Acute Treatment of Migraine With e-TNS

Launched by CEFALY TECHNOLOGY · Oct 28, 2015

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • History of episodic or chronic migraine with or without aura meeting the diagnostic criteria listed in ICHD-III beta (2013) section 1, migraine, with the exception of ''complicated migraine'' (i.e., hemiplegic migraine, basilar-type migraine, ophthalmoplegic migraine, migrainous infarction)
• • Having a migraine attack lasting at least 3 hours
• • Migraine pain intensity stabilized for at least 1 hour
• • Frontal, retro-, or peri- orbital headache.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Pregnant women
• • Patients having received Botox treatment in the prior 4 months
• • Patients having received supraorbital nerve blocks in the prior 4 months
• • Diagnosis of other primary or secondary headache disorders, except of Medication Overuse Headache
• • Patients with only temporal or occipital headache
• • Patients using opioid medication
• • Patients having taken abortive migraine medication in the prior 3 hours
• • Allodynia: intolerance to supraorbital neurostimulation (allodynia) that makes the treatment not applicable (the patients will be excluded if they are unable to tolerate the first 5 minutes of neurostimulation).
• • Implanted metal or electrical devices in the head
• • Cardiac pacemaker or implanted or wearable defibrillator
• • Patient having had a previous experience with Cefaly®