Sentences with phrase «for migraine patients»
For some migraine patients, including myself, the daith piercing has served as the much needed holistic method of relief as opposed to medication.
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For migraine patients with with no auras, the cause of the pain is less apparent.
«Eptinezumab represents a meaningful opportunity to transform treatment for migraine patients, and I look forward to working alongside Alder's talented team of scientists, physicians and employees.»
Forward - Looking Statements This press release contains forward - looking statements, including, without limitation, statements relating to: the continued build - out of Alder's executive team; Alder's growth and development; the role of Alder's Chief Operating Officer; the continued development and clinical, therapeutic and commercial potential of eptinezumab; the opportunity of eptinezumab to transform treatment for migraine patients; and the anticipated commercialization of eptinezumab.
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Alder BioPharmaceuticals, Inc., is a clinical - stage biopharmaceutical company committed to transforming the treatment paradigm for patients with migraine and other serious neurological or inflammatory conditions.
A 2013 study took 21 migraine patients and put them on an elimination diet after doing an IgG anti-body test to assess for food intolerances.
Doctors might order a CT or MRI scan for a headache or migraine to put patients» minds at ease about fears that a malignant brain tumor, aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation or other issue might be causing their symptoms.
In fact, several national guidelines for doctors specifically discourage scanning the brains of patients who complain of headache and migraine.
They searched for patients who had symptoms pointing to a basilar or hemiplegic migraine diagnosis and also received either a triptan or DHE treatment.
Not only does the study suggest these drugs are safe for this subset of migraine patients, it could also have implications for the nearly 10 million migraine sufferers who experience auras — a disturbance in vision, touch, speech, thinking, or strength that usually precedes a migraine headache.
Patients with temporal - type migraine derive similar and significant improvement from techniques that relieve pressure on (decompression) or remove a portion of (neurectomy) the nerve responsible for triggering their headaches, reports the study by ASPS Member Surgeon Bahman Guyuron, MD, Emeritus professor of plastic surgery at Case School of Medicine, Cleveland, and colleagues.
In fact, one patient was hospitalized monthly for her migraine pain prior to BOTOX ® treatment and was expected to be held back in school.
«We hope that this assessment of the efficacy of currently available migraine therapies helps patients and their physicians utilize treatments that are the most appropriate for them,» said Dr. Silberstein.
But he notes that NSAIDS taken by migraine patients may account for the lower cancer risk as previous studies have shown.
Other patients, in contrast, are treated with medications for migraines even though they suffer from a different type of headache, such as the more common tension variety.
There are cases of patients with severe TMD who don't present with migraine,» said Débora Grossi, the lead researcher for the study and principal investigator for the Thematic Project.
«Triggers for migraine attacks determined for individual patients.»
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«It is important for health professionals to be monitoring for the presence of mental health problems, including anxiety disorders, in their patients with migraine.
Whereas there are migraine - specific drugs that do a good job stopping attacks after they start, the holy grail for both patients and doctors has been prevention.
Surgery has become recognized as an effective treatment option for selected patients with chronic, severe migraine headaches who do not respond to standard treatments.
Josep Rodes - Cabau, M.D., of Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, and colleagues randomly assigned 171 patients with an indication for atrial septal defect (ASD) closure and no history of migraine to receive dual antiplatelet therapy (aspirin + clopidogrel [the clopidogrel group], n = 84) or single antiplatelet therapy (aspirin + placebo [the placebo group], n = 87) for 3 months following transcatheter ASD closure.
«We hope this review of medical treatments will serve as a guide for doctors and patients on how to interpret new findings, especially regarding four treatment options that doctors have commonly used for their pregnant patients with migraines,» said Rebecca Erwin Wells, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at Wake Forest Baptist and lead author of the paper.
«There are many available treatment options for migraine during pregnancy and lactation, so patients can be assured that they will not suffer during this important time in their lives.»
Her eloquent account flits between philosophy, science and anecdotes from the writing classes she runs for psychiatric patients, as well as her own experiences of those seizures, migraines, voices in her head and a heightened perceptual awareness.
To quantify the difference, a 2013 meta - analysis looked at placebo effects in 79 studies of migraine prevention: sugar pills reduced headache frequency for 22 percent of patients, fake acupuncture helped 38 percent, and sham surgery was a hit for a remarkable 58 percent.
Dr. Oren Tessler, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, is part of a team of plastic and reconstructive surgeons who report a high success rate using a method to screen and select patients for a specific surgical migraine treatment technique.
«Surgery is a valid treatment for migraines in certain patients,» notes Dr. Oren Tessler, LSU Health Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon.
Female patients with bipolar disorder, for example, are more likely than male patients to experience depressive episodes, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, migraines and dysregulated mood due to poor sleep.
Dr. Kraig's research helps him to develop individualized treatment plans for patients in the Migraine Headache Clinic.
People consistently think expensive wine tastes better, for example, in the same way medical patients can benefit from sugar capsules that doctors say are migraine pills.
For the new study, researchers at Akershus University Hospital, in Norway, recruited 104 patients who were having at least one migraine a month.
To Danesh, the findings underscore the importance of patients having a range of options for migraine relief.
Certain common medications for treating mood disorders, migraines, depression, diabetes and blood pressure can cause patients to put on weight.
As I traveled around the world learning yoga and meditation techniques, I was always seeking migraine remedies for my patients and myself.
In another example of placebos and meds interacting in curious ways, one study found that when patients took a migraine drug that was labeled «placebo,» it worked half as well as it did for patients who took the same drug, properly labeled.
Because TMS has already been shown to be safe for the treatment of depression — and at much higher doses (i.e., the number of pulses)-- it offers a «gigantic margin of safety» to migraine patients, Dr. Lipton says.
«This may be a technique that will help a small number of migraine patients who have responded to Botox, but it's certainly not a procedure for generally treating migraines,» says Dr. Kunkel, who was not involved in the new study.
«Patients might feel dizzy or lightheaded or feel a vague discomfort in their heads, and oftentimes they'll get treated with medication that might not be appropriate for a true migraine.»
For instance, he may suggest that his patients who cant tolerate migraine medication try Petasites hybridus (butterbur) root to ease the side effects.
«Restorative yoga has been helpful for my patients with diverse conditions, such as back pain, neck pain, high blood pressure, asthma, migraine and tension headaches, stress - related diseases, chronic fatigue, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cancer.»
The similarities and connections between migraines and epilepsy suggest that ketosis, a proven therapy for epileptic patients, might be extremely beneficial for migraneurs as well.
While I do think I benefitted from entering into ketosis, I would not necessarily recommend a Ketogenic diet to patients unless to achieve some sort of therapeutic goal, such as improved insulin resistance, or for adjunct cancer care, to reduce inflammation, or to improve severe depression, migraines, or narcolepsy.
The study authors dismissed some of the potential reasons for migraine remission during the ketogenic periods, writing, «we attribute the improvement observed in these patients to ketogenesis, the sole event found to be time - locked to the disappearance (and recurrence) of their migraine attacks.»
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None of the patients had been treated with medications acting on the central nervous system (including psychiatric treatments) and none of them was receiving prophylactic medications for migraine.