That age-old question could be answered sooner then we would have previously thought. A clinical study is in the works that would pit those two alternative holistic approaches of curing things that ails us against each other.
As a prove that migraine people would try anything and everything, there were plenty of people singing up for this test though some of them dropped out when the realization what they are getting into settled in. From the looks of it, there's still 90 or so volunteers left so the study will probably proceed as planned.
CranioSacral Therapy is a branch of Osteopathy that we discussed just recently in Bowen Technique and Cranial Osteopathy as Alternative Migraine Treatments. Yours truly has not any first-hand experience with the practice but on review it did not appear to be too unpleasant. Getting a relaxing skull-massage is what it's basically all about, from a patient's point of view.
The Magnet Therapy is just as unfamiliar to this humble scribe as Osteopathy. Possessing a steely reserve and an iron will (Ed. note - wishful thinking on the part of the writer :P ), yours truly is, of course, naturally attracted to them. However, magnets as a migraine therapy is a different matter. "The magnet therapy industry totals sales of $300 million dollars per year in the United States" alone and as Stephen Colbert would say - the market has spoken. Yours truly, however, does not think $300 million U.S. dollars to be a lot of money, what with the inflation and everything, and therefore considers the jury to be still out on this "polarizing" (Ed. note - Tuesday is a bad pun day) issue.
Which method will win, Craniosacral therapy or Magnets? Who knows, my gentle readers. Who cares, really. As everyone well knows by now, nothing beats power crystals and Scalar energy.
link: Craniosacral therapy for migraine: protocol development for an exploratory controlled clinical trial
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CranioSacral therapy or Magnets - Which is Better For Treating Migraines?
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Actualy the magnets in the study are deliberatly weak enough to not be of much efficacy. they are intended to be a sham so that the study partisipents think somthing is being done to be a controle for the placebo effect.
Hans Albert Quistorff, LMP
Antalgic Posture Pain Specialist
The question is - won't people treated with magnets know about it? It was publicized, after all.
In the process of planing a magnet therapy study I came across this problem. How to do a double blind study of a physical modality?
The patients right to know verses the necessity that they not know for a valid study.
They can tell the patient that magnet therapy is safe but at the same time not make it strong enough to be fully effective; but they have to use an actual magnet because the subjects will try the dose it stick to the refrigerator test.
I see; they would, won't they? Most interesting. When approximately will the study commence? I am a little intrigued. Please do keep us posted; I'll write about it when you get the result.
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