The Healthy Skeptic: Can cold packs ease migraine pain? (South Florida Sun-Sentinel)

Quoted: “Cooling has been used [for headaches] since the 19th century,” says Dr. Roland Brilla, a clinical assistant professor of neurology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison and a member of the American Headache Society. Though many patients say cold helps a bit, he cautions that “it doesn?t seem to be extremely effective.”