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Women (and men) with chronic headache conditions know that headache can impact every area of life. But different symptoms can impact different people in different ways. And headache doesn’t have an equal impact on every area of life. A recent study in Italy focused on how primary headaches (ie migraine and chronic tension-type headache) impacted the [...]
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A University of Mississippi study is drawing attention to migraine in HIV patients. The study, first published online in November, points out that chronic migraine is a chronic problem for those with HIV. 200 HIV / AIDS patients were a part of the study. 53.5% reported headache symptoms. 14.56% met the criteria for episodic or [...]
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I was recently sent this infographic from The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Infographics can be useful summaries. But sometimes when we summarize information, we can miss important things. How do you think this infographic does? Source: Mount Sinai Medical Center
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A study of 1260 students in Germany set out to find out if certain adolescent behaviours were contributing to migraine or tension-type headache (TTH) attacks. The researchers diagnosed students in grades 10 and 11 (ages 14-20) with either migraine, tension-type headache, and migraine + TTH. It turns out that about 83.1% had had at least [...]
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In the last few years, it seems that Zanaflex for migraine is becoming increasingly popular with specialists. The name of the drug is tizanidine hydrochloride, with brand names such as Zanaflex and Sirdalud. It’s considered a "muscle relaxant", and it acts on the central nervous system to relax certain muscles in your body. Interestingly, Zanaflex [...]
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