Effects of Adding an Oculomotor Therapy Treatment in Patients With Migraine

Headaches are the fourth cause/reason for disability in the world population. Of which, headache in general accounts for 47%, 38% are tension headaches, 10% migraines and 3% for chronic headache lasting more than 15 days a month. Migraine is a neurological disease/disorder originating in the central nervous system with difficulty modulating responses to common sensory stimuli. Different studies have linked possible oculomotor problems and headaches, being an important and complex relationship. It is difficult to find a suitable and beneficial treatment for the treatment of migraine. It is hypothesized that adding a treatment of manual therapy and therapeutic exercise of the oculomotor system to an already established protocol of manual therapy and therapeutic exercise of the cervical region, has an additional benefit for patients with migraines (in relation to the quality of life, symptomatology and functionality).