Author: Dawn A. Marcus
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1493964844
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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This engaging and highly practical title is designed to support healthcare professionals in providing the best possible care for their patients with migraine. Developed by two leading authorities in the field who bring wit and warmth to their writing, the book combines the valuable wisdom of their clinical expertise with cutting edge scientific synthesis and helpful clinical pearls. Replete with a plethora of instructional aids and clinical tools (such as patient handouts, questionnaires, checklists, video clips, and quick-reference boxes), Discussing Migraine with Your Patients: A Common Sense Guide for Clinicians reviews migraine treatment in an evidence-based manner -- according to the empirical data and FDA and consensus-based guidelines. Discussion topics include acute and preventive pharmacotherapy, medical interventions and devices, behavioral and psychological nonpharmacologic therapies, education, trigger management, healthy lifestyle practices, stress management, neutraceuticals, and alternative medicine offerings. In addition, this easy-to-read title covers genetics and pathophysiology, symptoms and comorbidities, and a range of essential clinical skills that are useful in achieving the best possible outcomes with patients. In invaluable addition to the literature, this title will serve as the ultimate go-to resource for primary care clinicians and trainees. Headache specialists, too, will find value in this work.
Author: Alan David Kaye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107682894
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 547
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Edited by internationally recognized pain experts, this book offers 73 clinically relevant cases, accompanied by discussion in a question-and-answer format.
Author: Hans-Christoph Diener
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642733271
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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M. WILKINSON Patients with frequent or daily headaches pose a very difficult problem for the physician who has to treat them, particularly as many patients think that there should be a medicine or medicines which give them instant relief. In the search for the compound which would meet this very natural desire, many drugs have been manufactured and the temptation for the physician is either to increase the dose of a drug which seems to be, at any rate, partially effective, or to add one or more drugs to those which the patient is already taking. Although there have been some references to the dangers of overdosage of drugs for migraine in the past, it was not until relatively recently that it was recognized that drugs given for the relief of headache, if taken injudiciously, may themselves cause headache. The first drugs to be implicated in this way were ergotamine and phenazone. In the case of ergotamine tartrate, the dangers of ergotism were well known as this was a disorder which had been known and written about for many years. In the treatment of headache, fully blown ergotism is rare and in recent years has usually been due to self-medication in doses much greater than those prescribed although there are a few recorded cases where toxic amounts have been given.
Author: Mark W. Green
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527587274
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 335
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This collection of short discussions provides the answers to many queries that headache patients and their caregivers often have. It brings together authors experienced in patient care to select the most common issues raised by those suffering with headaches. The book delves into headache diagnosis and testing, triggers and lifestyle modifiers, medical and non-drug management, and covers various issues, from migraine and tension headache to brain tumors and concussions. It also provides understandable content in real-life clinical settings, detailing lively and informative exchanges between patient and physician. As such, this book will serve as an excellent resource for patients and their friends and family, as well as clinicians providing care to those with headache disorders.
Author: Katherine Foxhall
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421429489
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Deeply researched and beautifully written, this fascinating and accessible study of one of our most common, disabling—and yet often dismissed—disorders will appeal to physicians, historians, scholars in medical humanities, and people living with migraine alike.
Author: Elizabeth W. Loder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107636108
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Discussing real-world cases, this practical guide highlights areas of diagnostic uncertainty and shows common pitfalls in headache diagnosis and treatment.
Author: Mark W. Green
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781527520523
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This collection of short discussions provides the answers to many queries that headache patients and their caregivers often have. It brings together authors experienced in patient care to select the most common issues raised by those suffering with headaches. The book delves into headache diagnosis and testing, triggers and lifestyle modifiers, medical and non-drug management, and covers various issues, from migraine and tension headache to brain tumors and concussions. It also provides understandable content in real-life clinical settings, detailing lively and informative exchanges between patient and physician. As such, this book will serve as an excellent resource for patients and their friends and family, as well as clinicians providing care to those with headache disorders.
Author: Seymour Diamond
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 0128011629
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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There are two crucial issues in the treatment and management of headache patients: More than 50% of individuals experiencing headache have only been treated symptomatically, with no appropriate diagnosis established; and history and neurologic examination are essential to establishing a diagnosis, and thus selecting appropriate therapy. Headache and Migraine Biology and Management is a practical text that addresses these issues, featuring contributions from expert clinical authors. The book covers in detail topics including chronic and episodic migraine, post-traumatic headache, sinus headache, cluster headache, tension headache, and others. Chapters are also dedicated to treatment subjects, including psychiatric and psychological approaches, medication overuse, inpatient treatment, and pediatric issues. This book is an ideal resource for researchers and clinicians, uniting practical discussion of headache biology, current ideas on etiology, future research, and genetic significance and breakthroughs. This resource is useful to those who want to understand headache biology, treat and manage symptoms, and for those performing research in the headache field. A practical discussion of headache biology, current ideas on etiology, future research, and genetic significance and breakthroughs Features chapters from leading physicians and researchers in headache medicine Full-color text that includes both an overview of multiple disciplines and discusses the measures that can be used to treat headaches
Author: Carolyn Bernstein
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 141654769X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 371
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Draws on the latest scientific findings to identify the unique characteristics, chemical makeups, and structural differences of migraine-prone brains, offering insight into the role of the central nervous system while outlining a comprehensive program to reduce the frequency and intensity of headaches. Reprint.
Author: Robert Vink
Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
ISBN: 0987073052
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The brain is the most complex organ in our body. Indeed, it is perhaps the most complex structure we have ever encountered in nature. Both structurally and functionally, there are many peculiarities that differentiate the brain from all other organs. The brain is our connection to the world around us and by governing nervous system and higher function, any disturbance induces severe neurological and psychiatric disorders that can have a devastating effect on quality of life. Our understanding of the physiology and biochemistry of the brain has improved dramatically in the last two decades. In particular, the critical role of cations, including magnesium, has become evident, even if incompletely understood at a mechanistic level. The exact role and regulation of magnesium, in particular, remains elusive, largely because intracellular levels are so difficult to routinely quantify. Nonetheless, the importance of magnesium to normal central nervous system activity is self-evident given the complicated homeostatic mechanisms that maintain the concentration of this cation within strict limits essential for normal physiology and metabolism. There is also considerable accumulating evidence to suggest alterations to some brain functions in both normal and pathological conditions may be linked to alterations in local magnesium concentration. This book, containing chapters written by some of the foremost experts in the field of magnesium research, brings together the latest in experimental and clinical magnesium research as it relates to the central nervous system. It offers a complete and updated view of magnesiums involvement in central nervous system function and in so doing, brings together two main pillars of contemporary neuroscience research, namely providing an explanation for the molecular mechanisms involved in brain function, and emphasizing the connections between the molecular changes and behavior. It is the untiring efforts of those magnesium researchers who have dedicated their lives to unraveling the mysteries of magnesiums role in biological systems that has inspired the collation of this volume of work.
