Electrical pulse to aid migraine (BBC) {actually magnetic}

An electronic device may help 'zap' away migraine pain before it starts, US research suggests.

The hand-held device creates a short-lived electromagnetic field which 'interrupts' the migraine.

At the American Headache Society meeting researchers said the device was effective in treating nausea, noise and light sensitivity.

UK experts said the findings were interesting but warned it needed to be tested in a much larger study.
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The device, called TMS, delivers a strong electric current through a metal coil, which creates an intense magnetic field for about one millisecond.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5103162.stm

A little skepticism is warranted, but it would be interesting to see the results of furthur study.

And caused cancer, heart attacks, strokes, erectile dysfunction and gout.

Maybe they found a way to "filter out" the harmful "negative waves" with a magic crystal.

That's the difficulty in proving that elecromagnetic waves are harmful.
Only after several years of living under a high voltage line or right beside a mobile transmitter you see a statistically higher rate of cancer.

You almost can't prove it under laboratory conditions in a controlled short time experiment.

Therefor I'd reason that electromagnetic waves may be useful against migraine and not be very dangerous.
The same way an X-ray picture is pretty harmless although x-rays are very dangerous at high doses over a longer time.


"All is poison and nothing is poison. The dose matters"
(Paracelsus)

But they don't. The people who get the highest and steadiest doses of EM radiation show no statistical susceptability to any diseases such as cancer.

And who lives under high tension lines and near powerful tranmitters? Poor people. Statistically, the people most at risk for cancers (for other reasons).

in Discover magazine. It had been developed after doctors/technicians had noticed that people had expressed migraine relief after getting an MRI. It looks like they are still studying this idea. I've had several MRIs and have never been warned of ill effects from them. I would be happy to have such a seemingly benign treatment. It sounds a lot better than the medicine that I take for them now, which can sometimes have fatal or near fatal side effects. But, if you've ever had a bad migraine, you usually feel like being put out of your misery in any case!;-)

there is an implantable device which stimulates the vagus nerve. it's used primarily to treat epilepsy, but has shown promise as migraine prophylaxis as well.

i suspect this magnetic devise works through the same mechanism, though i would imagine the magnetic blast would have far more side effects and risks due to the crude nature of delivery.