Especially in chronic migraine, the psychotherapeutic practices of mindullness, the so-called mental vacuum, have long been shown to have, with the guidance of serious specialists, a comparable efficacy and sometimes even superior to conventional drugs . Those who suffer from this headache are constantly monitored both when treated with drugs and when treated with mindfullness practices. The social distancing induced by the pandemic had created a big problem for these patients as well as for many others with chronic diseases, but in this case a method devised by a group of neurologists operating on both sides of the Atlantic has not only solved it. , but it has also led to unexpected results that can now also be exploited regardless of the pandemic: a reduction in headache attacks by 50% and an equivalent halving of the need to resort to drugs. The novelty that these results have been achieved by treating patients remotely via smart-phones both in the US and in Italy, an extreme attempt that unexpectedly led to results that surprised the researchers themselves, Licia Grazzi of the Besta Headache Center in Milan, Paul Rizzoli of the Harvard Medical School in Boston and Frank Andrasik of the University of Memphis who have just exhibited them at the Anircef Congress Headaches in the evolution of neuroscience concluded on December 12 in virtual mode. Evidently, the authors point out, the halving of attacks and the need for therapy can also be achieved remotely because mindfulness carried out under the guidance of the doctor, however, reduces the stress markers involved in the mechanisms of triggering pain, both live and via the web. The possibility of being able to carry out it continuously explains its effectiveness especially in chronic migraine where it obtains improved ability both in pain management and in the need for drugs, advantages to which in the near future we can also add the reduction of stress on which we can count the patient who will know he can always count on his therapist simply by turning on his smartphone, regardless of waiting lists and pandemics.
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