Two-, Three-, and Four-Year Follow-Up on the Self-Regulatory Treatment of Chronic Headache

Chronic tension and vascular headache patients, initially treated with relaxation and biofeedback, were prospectively followed-up on an annual basis at 2-, 3-, and 4-years posttreatment. Although there was a fair degree of variability, tension headache patients generally showed good maintenance of initial headache reduction at Year 4. Vascular patients showed a nonsignificant trend for gradual deterioration of treatment effects over the 4 years of follow-up.