Botox is used in non-cosmetic healthcare for the same reason it is used in plastic surgery: It paralyzes muscles. Doctors use it for all manner of things, including treating overactive bladders and sweat glands. (The botox paralyzes the muscles responsible, effectively shutting them off.) My botox treatments are to alleviate my chronic migraines. The thought here is that the botox will keep the muscles of the head, neck, and face from tensing and staying tense; not only will this, in theory, decrease the frequency and severity of migraines, but it will (and this is a big one) make it harder, physiologically, to get stuck in a migraine spell that just won't go away. It's a series of 31 injections in the head, neck, and face performed every three months. This was my third treatment; the first one helped a lot, but then wore off; the second one helped not at all. Fingers crossed for this one.
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