Sentences with phrase «migraine patients who»

«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.

Not exact matches

I would love to recommend this to my patients with migraines, especially those who have problems with the medications.

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.

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.

Surgery has become recognized as an effective treatment option for selected patients with chronic, severe migraine headaches who do not respond to standard treatments.

«The results also show that migraine surgery can lead to dramatic improvements in functioning and coping ability, even in patients who are very disabled before surgery.»

The final analysis included 74 patients who completed both questionnaires at one - year follow - up after migraine surgery.

In the 1970s cardiac patients who also had migraines started telling their doctors that the beta blockers they were taking to slow rapid heartbeats also reduced the frequency of their attacks.

In a study of 588 patients who attended an outpatient headache clinic, more frequent migraines were experienced by participants with symptoms of anxiety and depression.

More than 90 % of the patients who underwent this surgery to decompress the nerves that trigger migraines experienced relief and also got a bonus cosmetic eyelid surgery.

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.

For the new study, researchers at Akershus University Hospital, in Norway, recruited 104 patients who were having at least one migraine a month.

Numerous medical studies have shown that in controlled studies, patients practicing yoga saw a reduction in migraine headaches compared to those headache patients who were not enrolled in yoga therapy.

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.

For instance, he may suggest that his patients who cant tolerate migraine medication try Petasites hybridus (butterbur) root to ease the side effects.

The migraines disappeared in 25 % of patients with migraines who were on the gluten free diet and the reduction in the intensity and / or frequency of attacks was observed in 38 % of patients.

Researchers surveyed 800 migraine patients along with 200 who suffer from cluster headaches.

Studies, including a double - blind, randomized trial showed that more than 60 percent of patients who took 150 milligrams of CoQ10 daily experienced a 50 percent or better reduction in the number of days with migraines.