OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of headache in medical students, and quantify the degree of disability through HIT-6 and MIDAS SCALE. METHOD The criteria established by International Headache Society were used and the HIT-6 and MIDAS, to asses disability. RESULTS 140 medical students from UFAM were evaluated. 16.43% cases of migraine headache, 6.43% of probable migraine, and 23.57% of ...

Abstract Background In recent years, surgical therapy has taken on an increasingly decisive role in the therapeutic armamentarium of migraine. All techniques are aimed at complete neurolysis some extra-cranial nerves, which most involved (in our experience) greater and lesser occipital, auriculotemporal, supraorbital, supratrochlear nerves. This paper describes approaches for treatment temporal...

Trained telephone interviewers contacted 1,573 adults across Canada about the nature and frequency of headaches suffered by them or by others in their households. Using a table of pain symptoms and other characteristics abstracted from the International Headache Society (IHS) classification, the headaches were assigned to migraine headache, tension-type headache or other diagnostic groups. Of t...

The aim of this study is to determine a possible relationship between prevalence, frequency, and severity of migraine and obesity. All pertinent data from the literature have been critically examined and reviewed in order to assess the possible relationship between obesity and migraine, in particular migraine frequency and disability in children, as well as in adult population studies. Prevalen...

PURPOSE This was the open-label study to evaluate the potential benefit of Pinus radiata bark extract and vitamin C as a treatment for migraine. METHODS Fifty outpatients with chronic migraine refractory to at least two prophylactic medications were treated with an antioxidant formulation of 1200 mg Pinus radiata bark extract and 150 mg vitamin C daily for 3 months. Patients completed migrain...

Patients with migraine often have substantial disabilities. US federal law provides protections for disabled Americans. This discussion provides information regarding the disability rights of patients with transformed migraine.

AIM Migraine headache is a common disorder, several drugs have been tried as a prophylaxis to reduce the attacks of headache. AIM of this study is to see the impact of amitriptyline on quality of life in migraneurs using Migraine Disability Assessment Score. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study 300 patients of either gender who required prophylaxis for migraine without aura were selected. The ...

Triptans are usually administered for migraine, but cannot be given to patients with malfunctioning cardiac or cerebral vascular systems, which commonly accompany hypertension. This article focuses on 8 cases in which treatment with candesartan was successful in reducing both the incidence and severity of headache in hypertensive patients with migraine. The cases reported in this article showed...

Abstract Introduction Migraine is a common disabling primary headache disorder with significant personal and socio-economic impacts. Medical students usually have multiple triggers for migraine, particularly stress irregular sleep. Objective To assess the prevalence, characteristics, degree of disability migraine in sample Egyptian medical to study their health care-seeking practice when having...