Botox for headaches

September 14, 2011

BOTOX has been approved in Australia for the prevention of headaches in chronic migraine patients 18 years and over who are experiencing headaches for 15 days or more per month with a migraine on at least eight of these days. The approval follows the recent PREEMPT study (world’s largest clinical trial to date in researching chronic migraine) which reviewed Botox as a prophylactic headache treatment in 1,384 patients. The PREEMPT results found that patients who were treated with Botox experienced significantly fewer headache days compared to those patients treated with placebo. Botox patients also experienced significant improvement from baseline in their quality of life and headache related disability scores. The approval now means that Botox can be administered across seven head and neck muscles every 12 weeks in doses from 155U to 195U, for three to five treatment cycles. It’s not PBS listed for this indication.

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Botox for headaches

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