T1: Smoothing lines and wrinkles may also help cure headaches. A new use for Botox injections is being studied.

T2: Got Tox? A headache clinic is experimenting with the use of BoTox to sooth migraine pain.

According to the New York Headache Center, a new treatment for migraine pain has been found in the trendy solution to wrinkles: BotTox.

Two studies, one published by Dr. Mathew in the journal "Headache," and the other overseen by Dr. Oliver Dolly in Ireland, have shown that BoTox injections can stop the pain from migraine headaches, though results are better in patients with pain predominant on only one side of their heads, or with tenderness in their scalps. The latter symptom - scalp tenderness - can also indicate that BoTox would relieve that patient of a normal tension headache as well as a migraine, though generally migraine sufferers respond better to the treatment.

In Mathew's study, 76% of patients given BoTox injections had relief from migraine pain, with 69% of them suffering from a one-sided headache. Patients suffering from bilateral headaches are not excluded from relief however, as the other 31% of patients who responded suffered from just that sort of migraine.

The Dolly study determined that BoTox injections work even when pain is in the top of the head, where there are no muscles to relax. Dolly determined that this is because BoTox prevents the neurotransmitter CGRP from being released, thus halting the transmission of pain along the nerves.

The end result: blocking the message from the nerves is more important than relaxing muscles, when it comes to using BoTox for migraine.

Both studies offer BoTox as a safe, effective way to help chronic migraine patients.