The Surgery of Migraine

The migraine therapy by means of surgery is based on a relief of the pressure in several terminations of the trigeminal nerve. The USA physicians discovered by chance that this method is working – namely within a study which, initially, had no connection whatsoever with migraine.
In this study, the removal of the corrugator muscle was performed, which is a muscle in the eyebrow area, on the purpose of eliminating the so-called glabellar wrinkles. After 314 patients were re-examined, it was found that, before the intervention, 39 of the patients suffered from migraine. 31 of 39 patients reported one year after the surgery that the migraine disappeared or was dramatically decreased.
This result of the year 2000 trial urged the plastic surgeons of the University Clinic of Cleveland (USA) to study more closely the connection between the corrugator muscle surgery and the migraine. Since then, a number of studies on migraine therapy by means of surgery were conducted and other surgeries areas besides the removal of the corrugator muscle were studied.