Robbins Headache Clinic Blog
How a Nurse With a Hole in Her Skull Changed the Medical History of Migraine
In 1936, Alfred Goltman, a physician from Tennessee, reported on one of his cases in the prominent medical journal Allergy. The patient was a 26-year-old woman with a history of headaches, nausea, and vomiting since childhood. Goltman believed the observations he had...
You Might Get a Headache After Eating Because…
Have you ever had a delicious dinner, only to feel like you were hit over the head with a bat 20 minutes later for seemingly no reason? It totally sucks, but headaches after eating are a real thing—and there are many different culinary culprits. Here are six reasons...
Modeling Migraine Conversations
If you live with migraine, you know that discussing the disease can be difficult. That’s why the American Migraine Foundation and Dawn Buse, PhD, psychologist and clinical professor of neurology, put together some helpful tips to navigate those tough conversations to...
Yoga and Ayurveda May Reduce Migraine Pain
Traditional Ayurveda along with Yoga therapy reduces symptoms, intensity of pain and improves Quality of life in Migraine patients. August 2018. Read more here
A New Book Puts My Pain in Perspective
In “Migraine,” Katherine Foxhall delivers a thorough and illuminating history of migraine that traces our endeavors to understand, treat and eliminate this painful condition we still know little about. Is migraine a disease? What causes migraine? What are its...
Cluster Headache and Magic Mushrooms?
Neurologists say it’s some of the worst pain known to medical science — right up there with kidney stones, childbirth and amputation without anesthesia. It’s so bad that as many as 25% of sufferers report suicidal intentions during the course of their ailment. 6-7-19....
Gut Bacteria May Help Explain Why Drugs Don’t Work for Everyone
Some drugs work well for one person but are ineffective for another; some also produce adverse events for certain individuals but not others. A study, using human gut bacteria and a mouse model, investigates whether our gut bacteria might help explain why. 6-6-19....
Migraine Affects a Billion People, But We Still Don’t Know Exactly Why
First things first: Migraine is not just a headache. It’s a genetic, neurological disease with an estimated billion sufferers around the world—that’s one in seven people, three-quarters of them women. 4-11-19. Read more here.
Study Says Migraine Prescription Patterns Provide Clinical Insights
Using a migraine disability assessment (MIDAS) score obtained through a patient questionnaire provides additional insight into migraine care, according to a poster presented at ISPOR 2019. The research showed that primary care physicians prescribe preventive therapy...
NYU Researchers Say De-Stressor App May Help Migraine Pain
Many of the 36 million migraine sufferers in the US turn off their smartphones — any lights and sounds, for that matter — when a headache sets in, so it may come as a surprise that researchers at NYU School of Medicine are touting a de-stressor app they say may help...