There are hundreds of cases that have been reported of migraine sufferers who trained with neurofeedback and reduced the number and intensity of migraines they had.  Often health professionals report that medications have been reduced or at times eliminated. 

A case example:  A retired chiropractor suffered from migraines for 30 years.  Late one day, just as he was getting started with neurofeedback he got a severe migraine.  He was in excruciating pain and considering going to the hospital. He reported that when this level of migraine occurs, there is no way to stop it for many hours or longer. 

He was able to train for 25 minutes using neurofeedback.  During that time, we made some changes to adjust the training till he noted some improvement in pain.  We then continued with the last training settings.  By the end of 25 minutes he said his pain went from a 10 to a 2 (scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst).  After we stopped, he reported soon the pain had gone down to a level 1.  He was amazed. He said he could not believe it was possible to stop a headache like that in such a short time – and for it simply to be virtually gone.  He did not re-experience the migraine again in the next week.

This is not an isolated incidence. It is common to be able to stop a severe migraine in progress – with people who say it takes hours to calm down even with medications. 

But that’s not the goal of neurofeedback and training. The goal is to reduce, on an ongoing basis, the number and intensity of migraines.  Many clinicians around the US have reported that they often see that neurofeedback training does help clients learn to be much more stable and reduce the number of headaches and the intensity of headaches.