Peggy has a headache
According to the World Health Organization, headache disorders are among the top 10 causes of disability impacting a person’s quality of life and ability to engage in daily activities. Nearly 50% of the population suffers from this condition! Given that headache disorders can by triggered by lifestyle and environmental factors, the American Headache Society recommends a combination and pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to treat this condition. Do you know what you can do to help a patient with headache pain?
Podcasts
Pain Know-How
Join Dr. Mansdorf and Joe Khafi as they talk about headaches, sharing classification criteria, primary, secondary and red flag headaches, and differences of migraine with and without aura.
Media Snippets
Headache Classification
Listen to Soma Sahai-Srivastava, MD, Neurology, as she explores the classification of headaches.
Migraine Risk factors
Lindsey Shomer, OTD, OTR/L, CEAS, Assistant Professor of Clinical Occupational Therapy shares about risk factors for migraine and how Occupational therapy contributes to the management of this condition.
Caffeine Headache
Dr. Reed Levine discusses headache secondary to caffeine consumption and some strategies to manage this condition.
Opiods guidelines 2022
Listen to Dr. Steven Richeimer, Chief, Division of Pain Medicine at Keck Hospital of USC, as he discusses the guidelines for prescribing opioids.
Blogs
Treat Chronic Headache Pain With Mindfulness-Based Dancing
We have known for a long time that dancing tends to make people happy, but now there is light being shed on the idea that it may also help alleviate chronic headache pain.
Relieving Migraine Headache Pain with Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation
There’s a new non-invasive device that may help people prevent migraines by using it just 20 minutes per day.
Change Your Thoughts, Reduce Your Pain Severity
Pain catastrophizing has an impact on the pain intensity and psychological conditions that people experience when they have chronic pain.
The Impact of Health-Related Guilt and Chronic Pain
The health-related guilt that many people with chronic pain experience is from coping with the condition and the decrease in quality of life that it often brings about.