Best Migraine Cap: The 7 Best Cold Therapy Hats to Bring Headache Relief

glamour.com:

, you know you’d do almost anything to get rid of it—including putting on a migraine cap. Yes, yes, the idea of donning an ice cap, essentially strutting around with a well-fitted cold pack on your cranium, sounds a little ridiculous.

But headache hats can be a powerful pain relief tool for managing a serious . Cold therapy has been the gold standard in DIY migraine relief for decades thanks to the numbing effect of a good ice pack.

One 1986 published by the National Institutes of Health found that using a cold gel pack in addition to headache medication helped bring 52 percent of participants immediate relief (with nearly three in four saying the cold therapy helped overall).

Just because it's an old trick, doesn't mean it isn't a highly effective one. Luckily, you don’t have to walk around holding a reusable ice pack to your head until your headache goes away—the internet is full of purpose-built headache relief caps.