Description |
viii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
Series |
Understanding health and sickness series |
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Understanding health and sickness series.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 124) and index. |
Contents |
What is migraine? -- Who gets migraine? -- The role of hormones -- What causes migraine -- Evaluating migraines -- Acute treatment of migraine -- Preventing migraine -- Other headaches -- New areas of research. |
Summary |
"Understanding Migraine and Other Headaches provides up-to-date information on the causes and diagnoses, as well as current preventive measures, effective treatments, and surgical procedures. This overview includes discussion of every major type of headache, including the debilitating, nausea-inducing forms of migraine, episodic tension-type headaches (the most common form), chronic daily headaches, and more obscure headaches such as trigeminal neuralgia and cluster headaches." "This book undertakes a comprehensive look at medications for acute "as needed" treatment of headaches and for preventing the onset of an attack. It offers guidelines for assessing headache pain, the level and type of medication needed, possible side effects, and drug effectiveness."--Jacket. |
Subject |
Migraine.
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Headache.
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Headache. (OCoLC)fst00952645
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Migraine. (OCoLC)fst01020672
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Migraine Disorders -- Popular Works.
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Headache -- Popular Works.
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Headache Disorders -- Popular Works.
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ISBN |
1578065917 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781578065912 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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1578065925 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9781578065929 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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