Plastic Surgery for Migraines

Come on?!? Really? No I'm not a migraine sufferer and maybe if I was I wouldn't think this was so outrageous but....

The Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, recently reported a double blind study where more than 80 percent of patients who underwent surgery in one of three “trigger sites” significantly reduced their number of headaches compared with more than 55 percent of the group who had sham surgery. More than half of the patients with the real surgery reported a “complete elimination” of headaches compared with about 4 percent of the placebo group.

The lead author of the study, a plastic surgeon, found some of his patients migraines were improving post-forehead lift (typically for smoothing furrowed brows). He began searching for a surgical answer to migraines, hence the study.