The findings … …and subsequent assumption from a recent observational Italian study;1 ‘When cervical pain is actually migraine: An observational study in 207 patients.’ challenge basic neuro/anatomical/physiological principles. This survey sought to assign a headache diagnosis to a cohort of 132 participants who had self diagnosed their headache as being of cervical in origin. The
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Cause of Headache and Migraine – An Underlying Disorder
What else can I say but… there are those who are innately intuitive. Considering the cause of headache and migraine, I have just come across a gentleman(1) who in 1888 described the migraine process in this way: “… we must not ascribe too much significance to throbbing of the increase in the pain by the
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Headache or Migraine Frequency – Has There Been a Gradual Increase Over the Years?
If yes, this is a clear indicator that your neck is involved. A gradual (as distinct from a sudden, recent) increase in headache or migraine frequency indicates that a neck disorder (usually stiffness of one or more of then top three spinal segments) is worsening, resulting in a gradual increase in frequency over the years
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Migraine, Dizziness and Ménière’s Disease: Are They Presentations of a Common Disorder?
Many patients present with dizziness as their only symptom. Whilst they are grateful they do not have to endure the awful pain of migraine or headache, significant dizziness can be disabling… and of course dizziness is another symptom that many headache and migraine patients experience. Many of those patients in whom dizziness was the only symptom
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Headache and Migraine Treatment – Summarising the Reasons Why Headache and Migraine Treatment Often Fails
Several authorities recently summarised the reasons why headache and migraine treatment often fails. Amongst other things, they suggested that the diagnosis is incomplete or incorrect and that this could occur for various reasons. One of the reasons is ‘misdiagnosis’. I have mentioned this research before but diagnosing headache and migraine is like ‘a dog’s breakfast’; it
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Headache or Migraine Area of Pain – Where do You Feel the Pain of Your Headache or Migraine?
This is a really important question for us because the area of your headache or migraine can give us a really strong indication as to which spinal segment is primarily responsible for your head pain. For example if the pain of your headache or migraine is behind your eye this suggests very strongly that the
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