by Sue Robbins | Mar 1, 2015 | Headache Drugs
Research being presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s Annual Scientific Meeting describes a treatment called image-guided, intranasal sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) blocks to give patients enough ongoing relief that they required less medication...
by Sue Robbins | Aug 29, 2013 | Headache Drugs
A review by Danish researchers has found that after analyzing 20 separate studies that changes in the brain’s white matter and tiny lesions could be found in the brains’ of migraine sufferers. The results were published in the journal Neurology. The reason...
by Dr Robbins | Dec 22, 2012 | Migraine, Sports Injury
I am scheduled to be on WGN 720 AM (Chicago) Dec 25th at 8:10 or so; we will be discussing football, concussions, and what to do about head traumas in football; recently I wrote an OPED (on Realclearsports.com several Thursdays ago) on “Save Brains: Stop...
by Sue Robbins | Dec 15, 2013 | Headache Drugs
The FDA has allowed marketing of the Cerena Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator (TMS) – the first device to alleviate pain caused by migraine headaches that are preceded by an aura. An aura is a visual, sensory or motor disturbance preceding the onset of a migraine...
by Dr Robbins | Jul 16, 2012 | Headache Drugs
A study at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York presented findings last year to the Radiological Society of North America pertaining to soccer players, and the practice of heading the ball. They concluded that young adult players in the study who had...
