Psychosomatic approach for chronic migraine

[Psychosomatic approach for chronic headache].

Chronic headache is caused by several reasons, such as medication over use, psychological stress, depression, anxiety and psychiatric disease. It is often difficult to treat medication over use headache. So it is important to manage the psychological factor before abuse. There are the relationships in migraine and psychiatric disease, especially major depression and panic disorder. In the treat...

Psychosomatic reasons for chronic pains.

In this issue of the Southern Medical Journal, the review by J. Rubin on psychosomatic pain quoted a study in which it was found that “college students with chronic pain yielded a history of abuse (physical and/or sexual) in 43.5% of the females (275 subjects) and 23.8% of the males (151 subjects).” We suggest that as many victims of sexual abuse repress their memory of the incident(s), the act...

A psychosomatic approach.

Chronic migraine.

Chronic migraine is a disabling neurologic condition that affects 2% of the general population. Patients with chronic migraine have headaches on at least 15 days a month, with at least eight days a month on which their headaches and associated symptoms meet diagnostic criteria for migraine. Chronic migraine places an enormous burden on patients owing to frequent headaches; hypersensitivity to v...

Combination therapy for chronic migraine

Neurology 2012;78:940–941 Chronic migraine (CM) is a frequent and challenging condition for practicing neurologists. It affects around 2% of adults and its prevalence in middleaged women reaches 5%.1 Management of CM is generally unsatisfactory and largely not evidencebased, in part because until recently CM has not been considered a true entity, but mostly a consequence of analgesic overuse. E...