A history of non-drug treatment in headache, particularly migraine
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A history of non-drug treatment in headache, particularly migraine.
Although new invasive procedures for the treatment of migraine have evolved during the past decades, the application of invasive procedures for this indication is not new. In this review, the history of non-drug treatments for migraine is discussed. Historical texts by physicians known to have written on headache and migraine (hemicrania), well-known books by physicians from the main historical...
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Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, AB, Canada T3B 6A8 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada Correspondence to: T Pringsheim [email protected] Cite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g2285 doi: 10.1136/...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Brain
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0006-8950,1460-2156
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awq170