The aim of this study was to evaluate and define the triggers of the acute migraine attack. Patients rated triggers on a 0-3 scale for the average headache. Demographics, prodrome, aura, headache characteristics, postdrome, medication responsiveness, acute and chronic disability, sleep characteristics and social and personal characteristics were also recorded. One thousand two hundred and seven...

Chronic migraine is a relatively new concept in the headache world. Until recently, the biased view in many headache specialist centres was that chronic migraine was usually due to medication overuse and improved once patients were detoxified (1). Large population-based studies, however, identified patients with chronic migraine without medication overuse (2–5). With such a recent addition to t...

INTRODUCTION Migraine has become an important vascular risk factor during the past few years, along with the presence of white matter and clinically silent ischaemic lesions. Whether these findings contribute to the migraine becoming chronic has been a source of debate. People with chronic migraine also have a less favourable metabolic profile. An exhaustive review of the literature has been ma...

Objectives: To evaluate a multidisciplinary group intervention, the migraine patient school (MPS), for patients with severe, mostly chronic migraine. Method: A 13-week intervention program including seven sessions of education, practical body awareness and relaxation exercises, home assignments was performed in small groups 5–11 participants. Four were consecutively included from spring 2014 to...

Headache is one of the most common medical complaints of humankind that occurs in all age groups and is the seventh leading reason for medical office visits. The most common cause of chronic headache is migraine that affects an estimated 10-15% of the population. However, many drugs are useful for treatment of headache, current conventional medications have many side effects. Therapeutic trials...

Chronic migraine is an important cause of functional disability and quality life deficits, affecting 12% the world population. Therefore, more treatment alternatives that promote better pain control are needed. So, botulinum toxin type A presents itself as a therapeutic option for this purpose. This integrative review aimed to analyze functionality PREEMPT protocol applied chronic migraine, ana...

The selective melatonin receptor agonism effect of ramelteon is useful for insomnia. Here we wanted to present a refractory chronic migraine case, who had significant improvements in migraine after using ramelteon. The possible mechanism for the ramelteon in the migraine relief might be related to melatonin effects.

The symptoms of migraine are non-specific and can be present in many other primary and secondary headache disorders, which are reviewed. Even experienced headache specialists may be challenged at times when diagnosing what appears to be first or worst, new type, migraine status, and chronic migraine.

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: migraine is common worldwide. in recent years, vitamin d deficiency has been determined as a global health problem. a few studies have shown inverse relationship between serum vitamin d levels and headache. thus, in this study, we assessed relationship between serum vitamin d levels with migraine. materials and methods: the present study...