Sentences with phrase «migraine patients»

«Further studies are needed to elucidate whether vitamin supplementation is effective in migraine patients in general, and whether patients with mild deficiency are more likely to benefit from supplementation,» says Suzanne Hagler, MD, a Headache Medicine fellow in the division of Neurology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.
About 30 percent of migraine patients experience visual disturbances, called auras, before headaches hit.
For migraine patients with with no auras, the cause of the pain is less apparent.
An antibody therapy against a key inflammatory molecule involved in migraines reduces the number of headaches that chronic migraine patients experience per month in a phase III trial A new s...
«Our study demonstrates the high functional disability experienced by migraine patients, compared to those with other pain conditions,» comments ASPS Member Surgeon William Gerald Austen, Jr, of Massachusetts General Hospital.
However, this research was the first to consider the frequency of migraine attacks when analyzing its connection with TMD: eighty - four women in their early to mid-thirties were assessed, being that 21 were chronic migraine patients, 32 had episodic migraine, while 32 with no history of migraine were included as controls — the results were published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.
We doctors have known for a long time that migraine patients differ from each other and the drugs that work for some patients are completely inefficient for others,» said Professor John - Anker Zwart from the Oslo University Hospital.
A team of researchers led by Prof. Tobias Kurth, Head of the Institute of Public Health (IPH) at Charité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has now been able to establish the following: female migraine patients have a higher risk of stroke or heart attacks than women without migraine.
Migraine sufferers have significantly higher sodium concentrations in their cerebrospinal fluid than people without the condition, according to the first study to use a technique called sodium MRI to look at migraine patients.
Consequently, many migraine patients are undiagnosed and untreated.
More than 20 percent of migraine patients report that they feel better even when they are given a placebo.
Dr. Richard Kraig is an expert in migraine patient care, migraine research and cerebrovascular disease research.
A «complex» of brain metabolites distinguish altered chemistry in the cingulate cortex of episodic migraine patients Becerra L, Veggeberg R, Prescot A, Jensen JE, Renshaw P, Scrivani S, Spierings EL, Burstein R, Borsook D. NeuroImage Clinical.
Right now, Dr. Goadsby points out, there is no treatment that can be given to migraine patients during aura; triptans are no more effective than placebo if they are given during aura, before the migraine itself begins.
«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.
But by putting migraine patients on very restricted diets, and then adding foods back into the diet, one at a time, researchers have been able to identify several common food triggers, which I call the «migraine dirty dozen»: apples, bananas, chocolate, citrus fruits, corn, dairy products, eggs, meat, nuts, onions, tomatoes, and wheat.
Researchers surveyed 800 migraine patients along with 200 who suffer from cluster headaches.
However, according to neurologist Alexander Mauskop, this study represents the largest sampling of migraine patients so far.
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Overall, sodium concentrations were significantly higher in the brain's cerebrospinal fluid in migraine patients than in the healthy control group.
But he notes that NSAIDS taken by migraine patients may account for the lower cancer risk as previous studies have shown.
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.
«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.»
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.
Dr. Guyuron developed the migraine surgery techniques after noticing that some migraine patients had reduced headache activity after undergoing cosmetic forehead lift procedures.
Sodium concentrations of migraine patients and healthy controls were compared and statistically analyzed.
«Migraine patients are more likely to have signs and symptoms of TMD, but the reverse is not true.
By the early 20th century clinicians turned their attention to the role of the blood vessels, inspired in part by observations of strong pulsing of the temporal arteries in migraine patients, as well as patients» descriptions of throbbing pain and the relief they got from compression of the carotid arteries.
Preoperative pain coping scores in migraine patients were substantially lower than reported for patients with other types of chronic pain — for example, neuropathic (related to nerve damage) pain, arthritis, or lower back pain.
Developed by plastic surgeons who noticed that some migraine patients had fewer headaches after cosmetic forehead - lift, migraine surgery procedures address trigger sites linked to certain headache patterns.
In the 19th century medical electricity had become all the rage, and migraine patients were routinely jolted with a variety of inventions, including the hydroelectric bath, which was basically an electrified tub of water.
If one drug doesn't work for the migraine patient, the other one may.
«These findings potentially suggest that adequate medical treatment to decrease headache frequency may reduce the risk of depression and anxiety in migraine patients,» said Dr. Fu - Chi Yang, corresponding author of the study and an investigator in the Department of Neurology, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taiwan.
Migraine patients have presented with lower serum magnesium levels compared to normal control groups of the same age without migraine headaches.
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.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not yet approved the device, but if it does earn approval, migraine patients could use it as an alternative to drugs, or in conjunction with medications, Dr. Lipton says.
(ISTOCKPHOTO) Sure, there's the agony inside your head, but as a migraine patient you may also suffer the much less discussed pain that comes from an absence of sympathy.
An increase in DAO activity with the histamine - free diet was shown in migraine patients (57).
For some migraine patients, including myself, the daith piercing has served as the much needed holistic method of relief as opposed to medication.
A different survey showed that among 135 migraine patients, 32 % had metabolic syndrome and 11 % had frank insulin resistance (high fasting insulin)(8).
Sixty percent of the migraine patients indicated experiencing relief from headaches.
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