Getting ahead of migraines
The top two reasons kids are referred to and seen at the Stollery Children’s Hospital are pain caused by headaches and migraines. It’s one of the most debilitating conditions affecting young patients.
Dr. Thilinie Rajapakse, a pediatric neurologist at the Stollery Children’s Hospital and Julia Craig, a medical student and researcher, are working together to discover non-medication-based therapies for migraine and kids’ headaches.
Current treatments of migraines fall short of helping the pain and can come with significant side effects. The Cefaly neurostimulation device is the first in North America to be studied for its potential in treating and managing adolescent migraine pain without using medication.
Their next steps are to design and implement a clinical trial to safely test this device on kids and young adults to know how this device feels and if it relieves the pain and discomfort that migraines bring.
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