Migraines ‘a quality of life issue’

24. November 2011

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Migraines ‘a quality of life issue’

Waking up with a throbbing headache is frustrating, stressful, and, for some people, completely debilitating. While sufferers can tend to manage tension-type headaches on their own, migraines are a different story.When a migraine strikes, life can come to a sudden stop.”The best way I can describe a migraine is feeling like you have brain freeze [...]

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24. November 2011

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Migraines may raise depression risk: study

Migraines may raise depression risk: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People who get painful migraine headaches may be at a higher risk for developing clinical depression, suggests a new study from Canada.The research, published in the journal Headache, also hints that the relationship may go both ways, and people with clinical depression could have a higher risk of developing migraines, [...]

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24. November 2011

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The migraine battle

The migraine battle

Your head throbs, your eyes struggle to focus and sounds and bright light can cut like a knife – and that’s just with an ordinary headache.For almost 355,000 Australians thought to have chronic migraine, things are much worse.For them, headache pain comes in the form of frequent, painful migraines that severely limit their ability to [...]

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24. November 2011

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Study debunks link between chinooks and headaches

Study debunks link between chinooks and headaches

CALGARY Migraine sufferers say there’s nothing quite as painful as a “chinook headache” brought on by the warm winds that can turn a frigid day into a balmy oasis during the winter months.But a study from the University of Calgary suggests that a chinook may be a wind that blows less ill than its reputation [...]

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8. November 2011

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Get Your Life Back: The Reed Procedure

Get Your Life Back: The Reed Procedure

Neuro Stim Technologies announced today that pain management specialist Dr. Ken Reed, founder of Reed Migraine Centers and pioneer of the Reed Procedure, a treatment that blocks migraine pain, will present a free seminar Get Your Life Back: The Reed Procedure at Forrest Park Medical Center at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, November 8, 2011.The seminar [...]

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8. November 2011

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Eat yourself healthy

Eat yourself healthy

I was 17 when I had my first migraine. Denver Heating . For several hours I felt sick, dizzy, oddly distanced from my surroundings. Then came the pain: a relentless, all-encompassing stabbing just behind my right eye. My mother, a lifelong sufferer, promptly issued me with a series of nutritional instructions: avoid red wine, cheese [...]

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8. November 2011

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Breakthrough in Migraine Treatment

Breakthrough in Migraine Treatment

PREMICE clinical trial proves Cefaly® medical device efficacy in migraine prevention and points out that Cefaly® has the best safety-efficacy ratio compared to other treatments. On Monday 7th of November a press conference took place in Liege Science Park. Professor Jean Schoenen, principal investigator, neurologist and professor at Liege University (Belgium) presented the results of PREMICE (Prevention Migraine Cefaly) a multicenter randomized double-blind placebo controlled [...]

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24. August 2010

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How Effective is Acupuncture Migraines

How Effective is Acupuncture Migraines

It is proven that migraine is a severe neurological disorder which affected thousands if not millions of people all over the globe. If the sufferer is not able to do his day to day activities because of the pain that is caused by migraine attack, he feels devastated and frustrated of not doing the things he [...]

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17. August 2010

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Facts About Migraine Headaches Cause

Facts About Migraine Headaches Cause

Whenever a person gets sick, the first and normal reaction is to consult a medical practitioner since it is believed that medical practitioner will immediately help to reduce the pain. People who are suffering from migraine headache are among them.  This is a good action since they need to undergo to the correct diagnosis and [...]

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12. August 2010

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Feverfew Migraine Treating

Feverfew Migraine Treating

Treating migraine by feverfew has been utilized to be an option to the usual medicines for migraine for a long period of time. The question naturally arises, is it pertinent for every patient of migraine? Before taking the treatment for feverfew migraine, some advices below are provided to help you out. Way back in the [...]

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