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[1] [2] Another reason to pursue prevention is to avoid medication overuse headache (MOH), otherwise known as rebound headache, which can arise from overuse of pain medications, and can result in chronic daily headache. [3] [4] [5] Preventive treatments of migraine include medications, nutritional supplements, lifestyle alterations, and surgery ...
Rescue treatment involves acute symptomatic control with medication. [4] Recommendations for rescue therapy of migraine include: (1) migraine-specific agents such as triptans, CGRP antagonists, or ditans for patients with severe headaches or for headaches that respond poorly to analgesics, (2) non-oral (typically nasal or injection) route of administration for patients with vomiting, (3) avoid ...
With chronic headache patients, the acupuncturist may needle "tender points at or near the site of maximal headache pain". [25] A study conducted by the University of North Carolina School of Medicine found that compared to medicinal treatment alone, medicinal treatment plus acupuncture resulted in more improvement for chronic daily headache ...
Migraine (UK: / ˈ m iː ɡ r eɪ n /, US: / ˈ m aɪ-/) [1] [2] is a genetically-influenced complex neurological disorder characterized by episodes of moderate-to-severe headache, most often unilateral and generally associated with nausea and light and sound sensitivity.
CGRP is a neuropeptide which is thought to induce migraines via vasodilation of cranial arteries. [14] CGRP can also release inflammatory agents and cause nervous system sensitization. [ 14 ] It is theorized that by antagonizing the CGRP receptor of the trigeminal ganglia, lowered CGRP is released and less migraine occurs. [ 14 ]
Orthostatic headache is a medical condition in which a person develops a headache while vertical and the headache is relieved when horizontal. [1] [2] Previously it was often misdiagnosed as different primary headache disorders such as migraine or tension headaches. Increasing awareness of the symptom and its causes has prevented delayed or ...
Acephalgic migraine (also called migraine aura without headache, amigrainous migraine, isolated visual migraine, and optical migraine) is a neurological syndrome. It is a relatively uncommon variant of migraine in which the patient may experience some migraine symptoms such as aura , nausea , photophobia , and hemiparesis , but does not ...
Improvement can be seen in an average of 1.7 weeks for episodic cluster headache and 5 weeks for chronic cluster headache when using a dosage of ranged between 160 and 720 mg (mean 240 mg/day). [50] Preventive therapy with verapamil is believed to work because it has an effect on the circadian rhythm and on CGRPs as CGRP-release is controlled ...