Pilot Study - Relief of Migraine Pain Through Electro Stimulation (NCT02453399)

The pilot study was a single-center, prospective, double-blind, randomized, crossover, sham-controlled pilot study aimed to assess the safety and efficacy of non-invasive remote electrical neuromodulation (REN) with the Nerivio device for the acute treatment of migraine. In this study, 86 people with migraine with or without aura (in accordance with International Classification of Headache Disorders [ICHD] classification criteria) who had 2–8 attacks per month without preventive medications for at least 2 months were recruited. The participants were requested to treat migraine episodes at home using the device, which randomly provided one of four different stimuli programs differentiating in pulse width and one sham stimulus. Pain levels were self-reported via a smartphone application at stimulation onset and again at 10, 20, and 120 minutes after stimulation onset. The primary endpoint was the proportion of participants reporting pain decrease of at least 50% at 2 hours post-treatment in at least 50% of completed treatments. The analysis of the primary endpoint was performed on 71 participants who successfully treated at least one migraine attack and have not used rescue medications concurrently with REN treatments. This analysis revealed a 64% rate of at least 50% pain reduction at 2 hours post-treatment, in at least 50% of completed active treatments. This rate was significantly higher than the 26% rate found for the sham treatment (p=0.005). In this study, no device-related adverse events and no side effects were reported.