Robbins Headache Clinic Blog
Chronic Paroxysmal Hemicrania (CPH)
CPH may be a variation on chronic cluster headache, but this remains unclear. CPH has a female-to-male ratio of 3:1, with a typical onset from age 25 to 35. The pain is usually about the ophthalmic division of the trigeminal nerve, concentrated around the eye, temple,...
Headache and Traumatic Brain Injury
Researchers reported this week that headache is more frequent in persons suffering mild traumatic brain injury than after moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. The findings were announced this week at the 54th Annual Scientific Sessions of the American Headache...
Tension Headache
Tension headache is, perhaps, an unfortunate choice of terms because it implies that tension in the patient's life is at the root of the headache. Although stress and tension are important contributing factors toward daily headaches, they do not, by themselves, cause...
Can Doctors Learn Empathy?
Pauline W. Chen, M.D. and writer for the New York Times wonders if doctors can learn to be more empathic with their patients. Research has shown that greater physician empathy conveys benefits far beyond the exam room... leading to better patient outcomes, more...
Staying Hydrated
As the summer continues to heat up, it's important to stay hydrated. Federal guidelines suggest an extra 8 to 16 ounces of fluid before exercise, 4 to 8 ounces every 20 minutes during exercise, and an extra 16 ounces for each pound lost during a workout. It is also...
Does weather affect your migraines?
Weather changes and barometric pressure are common triggers in migraine patients. Although we can't control the weather, we can predict it and prepare for it. Consider downloading an app on your smart phone to keep track of barometric pressures and weather changes,...
Chronic Migraine
What do we mean by "chronic migraine"?? Episodic migraine is migraine that occurs less than 15 days a month; less than 15 days a month of any sort of headache. Episodic migraine may be 1, 2, 6,9 headaches a month, but certainly not daily or most days. Most people...
Headaches and Chocolate
Does chocolate trigger headaches? Most likely every food can trigger a headache for someone, and certainly chocolate can trigger for some people. Frederick G. Freitag, DO, FAHS, medical director at Baylor University Medical Center's Comprehensive Headache Center...
Higher Stroke Risk Linked With Lack of Sleep
Results from a three year study recently presented at the Sleep 2012 Conference in Boston indicate that a lack of sleep and higher stroke risk may be connected to one another. Adults who routinely get less than 6 hours of sleep a night are 4 times more likely to...
Teens and Experimentation With Prescription Pain Medications
The age of 16 seems to be the age when teens are most likely to start experimenting with prescription pain medications. Close to 140,000 teens and young adults, aged 12 to 21 years participated in the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Results showed that one in...