A report published earlier this year revealed that autogenic training an biofeedback could be helpful techniques to employ for children who suffer from migraine headaches. Researchers at the Department of Psychology, University of South Alabama, USA studied thirty children between the ages of 7 and 18 years who suffered from migraine headaches and were on a waiting list to be assessed for conventional treatment. The children were randomly assigned to one of three groups: One group to receive autogenic training, another group to receive Biofeedback and the third group were given no treatment and used as a control group.

The results revealed that, although the intensity of the headaches was unaffected, the children in both treatment groups experienced an improvement in the frequency and duration of headaches whereas none of the control group experienced these improvements. After a 6 month follow-up period, the researchers found that 80% of the biofeedback group and 50% of the autogenics group were completely free of their symptoms whereas none of the control group experienced any improvement at all.