Robbins Headache Clinic Blog
Emerging Therapies in Acute Migraine Treatment
In a recent article in Neurology Reviews, several new formulations and delivery systems for acute migraine medications which have been developed and are in clinical trials or awaiting approval were discussed. At the Headache cooperative of New England's 21st Annual...
Botulinum Toxin A as a Migraine Treatment for Children and Adolescents
Approximately 3% of pediatric headaches consist of chronic migraine, and many of these migraines are intractable to several preventive medicines. As of 2010 Botulinum toxin A has been approved for use as a treatment for chronic migraine in adults, but its use in the...
Is Detoxification Necessary when Treating Medication Overuse Headache?
In a recent article published in Neurology Reviews, author Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD said "For a majority of patients with medication overuse headache and chronic migraine, detoxification prior to initiation of preventive therapy is not necessary," a departure...
“Let-Down” Headaches
It has been proposed that reductions in stress and improvement of mood can be used to predict the onset of headaches in people with migraines. The phenomenon of relaxation after stress increasing the likelihood of headache in migraineurs is called "let-down" headache....
Orgasmic and Exertional Headaches: The Same or Different?
Although orgasmic headaches and Exertional headaches are two separately classified disorders, they have many similar characteristics. This led a recent study to review the degree of overlap of these two relatively uncommon primary headache disorders in terms of...
Extended Cycle Ring Contraceptives as a Migraine Aura Reducer
A recent study by Calhoun, Ford, and Pruitt looked into the reduced frequency of migraine aura in women using extended-cycle ring contraceptives. It is known that expression of aura is directly related to estrogen concentration. As such, the researchers postulated...
Increases in Hospital Utilization for Pediatric Headache
Headache is the third leading cause of referral to a pediatric emergency department, but specific numbers of hospital admissions for headache are not widely available. A recent study by Kabbouche et al. set out to determine the change in hospital utilization in the US...
Cognitive Dysfunction at Onset of Acute Migraine
In a recent study by Edwards et al. which aimed to increase awareness of cognitive dysfunction in migraine patients, the dysfunction which migraineurs experience at the arrival of migraines was examined. Many migraine patients have reported difficulty in cognition due...
Recurrent Headaches in Military Children and Adolescents and the Impact of Deployment
In a recent study by Swedean et al. both the prevalence of recurrent headaches in a population of military dependent children and adolescents and the impact of parental deployment on headache frequency, duration, and severity were evaluated. Recurrent headaches are...
Sinus and Neck Pain in Adolescents with Migraine
According to the ICHD-II criteria, migraine symptoms include nausea, vomiting, phonophobia, and photophobia. Outside of these criteria, other symptoms have been reported, including sinus pain/pressure and neck pain/discomfort in adults. Prior to a new study by Hershey...