Vol. 9, Issue 7, Part B (2023)

This research was intended to understand the influence of psychological intervention mainly Jacobson Progressive Muscular Relaxation technique and EMG-Biofeedback on migraine patients. It was observed in the literature review that allopathic treatment alone is not effective in treating migraine. But when medications are taken along with some other treatment procedures like stress management, relaxation techniques or other cognitive behavioral therapies they are proved more effective. So keeping this in mind a study is done to analyze the influence of psychological intervention on migraine. For the current investigation, 60 migraine candidates were taken and randomly divided into three groups. All the candidates received psychological intervention. A scale was used that was specifically designed to understand the intensity of migraine pain that is perceived by the respondents and number of migraine attacks. Progressive Muscular Relaxation Training and EMG-Biofeedback were administered to the candidates. ANOVA with Duncan's post-hoc test was used for the analysis purpose. Paired sample t-test was also used to compare a number of migraine attack, EMG-biofeedback, perceived pain intensity, and the retest scores after intervention in the form of JPMR and control group. The significance level was 0.05. The scores acquired at the time of the first testing on the problem of migraine pain and the frequency of migraine attacks were used as the baseline or pre-test values. All three groups were retested after the conclusion of the intervention and scores on subjective migraine pain severity and attack frequency were once again obtained for all candidates in all three groups.