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More than 10 years later, we sent a questionnaire to the patients of the study on migraines published in déc. 2000 (which itself included patients whose treatment had been finished for several years).

To date, end July 2010, 77 patients returned the questionnaire to Dr. Aguila, author of the study.

It shows the following results :

a) looking at the records of the patients who answered, there had been at the end of their treatment :

- 63 patients said they had no more migraine attacks (classified as cured) = 82% of this group

- 7 felt improved by 80% (9%)

- 3 considered themselves improved by 50% (4%)

- 4 considered themselves improved by 30% (5%)

- no one considered himself as unimproved

b) in July 2010 for this group of patients the mean follow-up is 12,9 years, and the results are as follows :

- 41 still feel cured (53 %)

- 23 feel improved by 80% (about 1 attack per year instead of several per month) = 30 %

- 7 considered themselves improved by 50% (9%)

- 3 feels improved by 30% (4%)

- 3 consider that the treatment was a failure (4%)

Conclusion

One third of patients who considered themselves cured had a few migraine attacks during the average 13 years after the end of the treatment, and feel now 'only' improved by 80%, the sum of patients improved by 100% and by 80% only switched in 13 years from 70 (91%) to 64 (83%) - less than 10% difference.

Knowing that such response rates (30%) to a questionnaire sent more than 10 years after the end of treatment are much better than what is usually found, and is therefore highly significant, it reveals the remarkable stability of treatment of migraine by Brachy-Myotherapy, with an average follow-up of 13 years.