Migraine, cluster and other types of headache

Migraine is a disorder of brain stem and sensory processing, often resulting in pain and other symptoms associated with alterations of brain activity. Results suggest that hyperbaric oxygen treatment reduces migraine and cluster headache pain. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy has powerful impacts on brain and body repair and regeneration at the cellular level. It mediates autonomic responses that are often involved in migraine and cluster headaches. HBOT’s powerful anti-inflammatory effect both acutely and chronically at the genetic level have profound effects on these patients, potentially modulating histamine, CGRP and other factors involved in migraine pain. HBOT delivers up to 1200% increases in plasma oxygen to brain and body tissues that offer significant repair and regeneration to neurological tissues involved in migraine. HBOT also enhances stem cell release up to 800%, relaxes soft tissue, repair vascular damage, stimulates fibroblast release, detoxifies and improves overall circulation and cerebrospinal fluid flow that may be factors in its ability to improve migraine, cluster, tension and other types of headaches.

A preliminary report on hyperbaric oxygen in the relief of migraine headache https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7775175/

Normobaric and hyperbaric oxygen therapy for migraine and cluster headache https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18646121/

Hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of migraine with aura https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9529766/

Revisiting the expanded use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for treatment of resistant migraines https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31898611/

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy in cluster headache https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8455970/

“Hyperbaric oxygen has not only a symptomatic effect on a single attack of cluster headache, but it also could prevent the occurrence of subsequent attacks.”

Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment of Active Cluster Headache: A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Cross-Over Study https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1468-2982.2002.00450.x