OBJECTIVE Our objective was to determine patterns, reasons for, and correlates of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use by US adults with migraines/severe headaches. BACKGROUND While many patients with chronic conditions use CAM, little is known about CAM use by adults with migraines/severe headaches. METHODS We compared CAM use between adults with and without self-reported migra...

Nerve block is the mainstay of therapy at pain clinics in Japan. The results of nerve blocks, namely the blocking of sensory pain pathways, vicious cycles of pain, sympathetic neural functions, and motor nerves are very useful in treating pain. If the same effects are to be obtained by drug administration, the concomitant use of many drugs with different actions is necessary, but even so, the e...

OBJECTIVE To classify headaches as a function of the menstrual cycle and to contrast aspects relating to the reproductive cycle as a function of headache type. METHOD Participants responded to a structured questionnaire consisting of 44 questions. Detailed headache information, enabling the classification of headaches, and questions relating to the menstrual cycle were obtained. RESULTS The...

Consider Lives for Headaches: there is some number of headaches such that the relief of those headaches is sufficient to outweigh the good life of an innocent person. Lives for Headaches is unintuitive, but difficult to deny. The argument leading to Lives for Headaches is valid, and appears to be constructed out of firmly entrenched premises. In this article, I advocate one way to reject Lives ...

BACKGROUND Headaches affect most children and rank third among illness-related causes of school absenteeism. Although the short-term outcome for most children appears favorable, few studies have reported long-term outcome. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the long-term prognosis of childhood headaches 20 years after initial diagnosis in a cohort of Atlantic Canadian children who had headaches diagnosed ...

Primary headaches are most common in women during their reproductive years and are affected by the hormonal fluctuations during pregnancy. Most headaches follow a benign course during pregnancy, although migraine is associated with increased risk of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and stroke. Management of primary headaches during pregnancy is essentially similar to management in the nonpre...

Headache is one of the most common symptoms after traumatic brain injury (often called " post-traumatic headache "). Over 30% of people report having headaches which continue long after injury. Headaches after TBI can be long-lasting, coming and going even past one year. Headaches can make it hard for you to carry out daily activities or can cause you to have more diffi culty thinking and remem...

Headaches are one of the most common ailments in modern society, leading to severe diminishing of general activities and they result in significant impact on the patient's quality of life. Blink reflex is an objective neurophysiological method for determining the status of the trigeminal system, facial nerve and the lateral part of medulla oblongata. The aim of this study was to examine the con...