Narrow band green light effects on headache, photophobia, sleep, and anxiety among migraine patients: an open-label study conducted online using daily headache diary.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Narrow band green light (NbGL) has been shown to relieve headache in small numbers of subjects but large-scale real-world assessments are lacking. The goal of this prospective, observational, open-label, real world study was to determine whether treatment with NbGL during the ictal phase of migraine, improves patients' perception of their headache, photophobia, anxiety and same-night sleep.

Methods

The study was conducted in purchasers of the NbGL Lamp in two phases. In Phase I purchasers of the Lamp completed a survey and were asked to participate in a 6-week diary study. In Phase 2 participants completed daily diaries for 6 weeks. Specifically, they were asked to use their judgement/impression/perception when choosing between headache-improved or headache-unimpr

SUBMITTER: Lipton RB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10582938 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature