Sentences with phrase «of migraine patients»

Sixty percent of the migraine patients indicated experiencing relief from headaches.

Neurologist Stasha Gominak came to a similar conclusion when she discovered a large portion of her migraine patients had sleep problems that were caused by vitamin D deficiency.

«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.

More than 20 percent of migraine patients report that they feel better even when they are given a placebo.

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.

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Finally, in our study of symptoms, we found patients with higher unconventional natural gas development activity had higher odds of nasal and sinus, migraine headache and fatigue symptoms compared to those with lower activity.

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.

«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.»

Only about 200 patients or fewer will take Valeant's branded version of the migraine drug this year, amounting to less than $ 1 million in sales (about 0.01 % of the company's annual revenue).

Coverage or not, Valeant said that less than 1 % of patients still take Valeant's branded migraine drug, with Perrigo (prgo), which makes a generic, outselling the branded version 250 to 1.

The majority of these patients experienced significant improvements with a reduced frequency and severity of migraine attacks on the elimination diet (9)

It was concluded in a 2003 Italian study that «a significant proportion of patients with migraine may have celiac disease, and that a gluten free diet may lead to a improvement in the migraine in these patients.»

Yet in some of these patients, it also triggers a migraine attack within six hours.

For migraine patients with with no auras, the cause of the pain is less apparent.

According to the authors, placebo effects can dramatically enhance the effectiveness of pharmaceutical therapies, as shown in studies of patients with irritable bowel disease and episodic migraine.

In all, 51.1 million headache - related patient visits occurred between 2007 and 2010 — nearly half of them related to migraine.

In fact, several national guidelines for doctors specifically discourage scanning the brains of patients who complain of headache and migraine.

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.

The patients underwent surgery on both sides of the head, targeting the nerve implicated in temporal migraine headaches: the zygomaticotemporal branch of the trigeminal nerve (ZTBTN).

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.

«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.

Generally speaking, an approximately 50 percent reduction in migraine days in at least half of patients is seen as a realistic therapeutic goal.

«Migraine patients are more likely to have signs and symptoms of TMD, but the reverse is not true.

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.

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.

The journal article concludes that an examination of TMD signs and symptoms should be clinically conducted in patients with migraine.

Patients reported the severity of their headaches on a visual analogue scale (VAS), ranging from 1 - 10, to quantify the degree of debilitation experienced from the migraine.

They offer a patient - centered therapy that has the potential to break the migraine cycle and quickly improve patients» quality of life,» he added.

Diagnosis is challenging, as the characteristics of migraines and the types of attacks vary widely among patients.

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.

In a linked editorial, Rebecca Burch from Harvard Medical School and Melissa Rayhill from The State University of New York at Buffalo caution that «the magnitude of the risk should not be over-emphasized,» as «it is small at the level of the individual patient, but still important at a population level because migraine is so prevalent.»

Each of the 33 migraine trigger factors investigated correlated with migraine attacks, in at least some of the 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.

«It is important for health professionals to be monitoring for the presence of mental health problems, including anxiety disorders, in their patients with migraine.

Before migraine surgery, the patients had «extremely poor» PSEQ scores, indicating a high level of disability.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

Occurrence of new - onset migraine attacks has been reported in approximately 15 percent of patients following transcatheter ASD closure, with the majority of initial episodes occurring within the days to weeks following the procedure.

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.

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.

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.

Topamax, an epilepsy drug from Ortho - McNeil Pharmaceutical, has proven extremely effective on migraines in clinical trials: Half of all patients have reported a 50 percent reduction in the frequency of migraines, and more than a quarter have a reported 75 percent reduction.

The research team found that, in a select group of patients, incisions through the upper eyelid resulted in equally effective release and deactivation of the nerves involved in migraines.

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.

Shannon entropy analysis of FA histograms performed better than mean FA as a diagnostic test to differentiate between concussion patients and controls and also performed better in determining which concussion patients developed post-traumatic migraines.