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Research volunteers
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Help
Various clinical studies are carried out to try and understand migraine including its causes and treatments. These studies use volunteers as research subjects to help them assess the possible connection between migraine, its causes, and other related factors.
How you can help
You can help by volunteering to take part in one or more of the following studies that are currently being undertaken. Your active participation in a clinical trial or study can help to create a better understanding of the condition, and help to develop new and improved treatments.
Volunteers are currently needed for the following studies:
- Neck dysfunction in migraine
- Chronic Headache Investigation
- Volunteers wanted to test preventative medication
- The Prima Trial
- Oxygen as a preventative
- Migraine and PFO (North Midlands)
- Menstrual migraine and genetics study
- Frequent use of painkillers complicating chronic migraine study
- New medication for adults who have headache for more than 15 days
- How migraine impacts people's life.
Also in this section, you can view studies that have finished recruiting volunteers. For further information, please click on the relevant sections below.
- Physiotherapy and migraine
- Migraine and exercise
| New medication to prevent menstrually related migraine | |
| Posted 30/07/10 If you are 18 years or over, suffer from migraine and have regular monthly menstrual cycles,... | Read more... |
| Neck dysfunction in headache syndromes | |
| Posted 04/02/10 Osteopath Clifford Lomas, who has a special interest in the causes and treatment of migraine and... | Read more... |
| The use of Clopidogrel as a prophylactic treatment for migraine | |
| Posted 04/01/10 Migraine Action member Elaine Lee got in touch as she wanted to share her experience of taking... | Read more... |
| Chronic Headache Investigation | |
| Do you have more than 15 headache days a month? If so the University of Southampton would very much like to hear... | Read more... |
| Volunteers wanted to test preventative medication | |
| The City of London Migraine Clinic is looking for people with migraine to test new medication for the prevention of... | Read more... |
| The Prima Trial | |
| This study evaluates the effectiveness of PFO closure as a treatment for migraine. PFO closure is performed by... | Read more... |
| Oxygen as a preventative treatment | |
| Can oxygen prevent occurrence of a migraine attack? The Headache Group at the National Hospital for Neurology and... | Read more... |
| Migraine and PFO (North Midlands) | |
| This study looks at the possible relationship between migraine and patent foramen ovale (PFO). The study is a... | Read more... |
| Menstrual migraine and genetics study | |
| The City of London Migraine Clinic wants to look closely at genes to gain more information on why some women get... | Read more... |
| Frequent use of painkillers complicating chronic migraine study | |
| This study is looking for a limited number of migraineurs using opiate (codeine, tramadol, oxycodone,... | Read more... |
| New medication for adults who have headache for more than 15 days | |
| A clinical study is currently underway evaluating an investigational medication for the treatment of headaches in... | Read more... |
| Study on how migraine impacts people's life | |
| United BioSource Corporation (UBC)* is conducting a research project in which they are trying to gain a better... | Read more... |
| Studies which have finished recruiting for volunteers | |
| Please find to follow a list of studies that have finished: Physiotherapy and Migraine The University of... | Read more... |
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