Welcome! If you’re a new visitor, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Are you interested to know more about medical video games that are already in use? Want to find out have video games distract from pain, or help you lose weight, or even games that improve your […]
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What if you could hook wires up to your brain, and control a computer game without moving a muscle? And what if that game guided your brain to act in ways that slowed down or stopped the migraine chain-reaction, or relaxed sore muscles, or cooled off your headache?
If controlling your computer with your brain sounds […]
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File this under "I bet you didn’t know that". Ever thought of beaver as a migraine remedy? What part of the beaver, you ask? Well, the scent glands in the beaver’s rears contain a substance called castoreum. For hundreds - no, thousands of years castoreum has been a remedy for everything from migraine to hysteria […]
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Cluster headaches are a nightmare, especially for those who aren’t helped by the common drug treatments. But a new study with cluster patients shows that occipital nerve stimulation may be promising.
Nerve stimulation has been used with some success in migraine patients. The study published today was led by Peter J. Goadsby, MD, PhD of University […]
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Hot flashes. Many women treat these symptoms of menopause with estrogen. That’s all very well, but some women find that the estrogen is causing them more migraine attacks - and that means jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Continuous estrogen therapy has been the best for some migraine sufferers. But others still […]
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Researchers are jumping on the pine bark extract band waggon, and they just may be onto something. Pine bark extract is made from the bark of a European pine called the Landes Pine, which grows in the Landes region of France. Pine bark extract is an antioxidant, and has also been used as an anti-inflammatory […]
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I was reminded by the comments of Curt Beil from the BVDN (Professional Association of German Neurologists) that I haven’t said nearly enough about one of the most effective, inexpensive headache treatments out there. Beil was commenting on biofeedback (which I have written quite a bit about) and progressive muscle relaxation. Of all the […]
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