London - A new sci-fi treatment involving a magnetic beam could offer respite to millions of migraine sufferers, researchers say.
Scientists have developed a handheld device which - at the touch of a button - delivers a brief magnetic pulse to the back of the head.
California-based eNeura Technology claims the device can alleviate symptoms for up to two hours, the Daily Mail reported.
Three months of treatment was found to relieve or reduce excruciating pain in 73 percent of patients treated in UK clinics.
Other symptoms of migraine like nausea, vertigo, memory problems and hyper-sensitivity to light and noise improved for 63 percent of those tested.
More than half found the number of headache days they had, which for some sufferers can be chronic, had declined to some extent.
Migraines have been described as an ‘electrical storm’ but the 500-pound device, known as the Spring Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation system, seems to
short-circuit this activity.
These findings of the study were revealed at the European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress in London.
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