Behavioral therapy along with medicine can help children and teens cope with migraines, according to a new study.

New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that behavioral therapy can reduce the number of migraines children and teens suffer. About 1.75 percent of children suffer from chronic migraines - a common type of headache that may occur with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, or sensitivity to light, HealthDay reported.

"It is really about coping in your day-to-day life and the fact that you can actually have some control over turning the volume down on your pain by the things that you do," Scott W. Powers, director of the Office for Clinical and Translational Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, told HealthDay.

According to researchers at Cincinnati Children's one in 10 school-age children experience recurring migraines. Ann Mondi, a high school student and one of the participants in the study, told researchers she experience at least 15 headaches a month. Mondi's migraines started in the eighth grade and worsened in high school, WRAL.com reported.

"I missed school because of it and I missed practices for plays and sports because the migraine was so bad that I didn't think I could do any physical activity," she told WRAL.com.

She said Behavioral techniques like bio-feedback, relaxation and deep breathing exercises helped Ann realize how tension affected her body.

"It kind of made me aware of 'I'm starting to get stressed' which starts to bring on the migraines," she said.

For the study, researchers analyzed data from 135 patients between the ages of 10 and 17 who suffered from migraines on 15 or more days each month, ABC News Radio reported.

The adolescents were assigned to either receive 10 headache education sessions or 10 cognitive behavioral therapy sessions. Both groups received the drug amitriptyline, a standard migraine medication, ABC News reported.

Researchers found that 86 percent of adolescents who received behavioral therapy had at least a 50 percent reduction in days with migraines.  Only 69 percent of those who received headache education saw an equivalent drop.

Based on the study, medicine and cognitive behavioral therapy help participants reduce their number of headache days by half or more.

"They were back to functioning day to day at a pretty normal level and managing the headaches they still had in a way that didn't lead to disability," Powers said.

ABC News reported that The U.S. Food and Drug Administration have not approved any treatments to reduce those migraines in young adults.