Further training

All information about further training and conferences on headache research, headache diagnostics and headache therapy

August 10, 2014 August 10, 2014

Migraine health academy

Many people with migraines have heard the saying: “Everyone has a bit of a headache at some point.” Or: “Most people only imagine migraines; it’s not a real illness.” No [...]

June 2, 2014 June 2, 2014

“I have chronic migraines”

Migraine is a neurological disease. Most of those affected do not notice the disease unless they encounter it in an acute attack. Migraine, especially chronic migraine, is not a simple headache, but one of the worst pain conditions that afflict people. Women in particular are very severely affected. So it's not just the typical one-sided, stabbing, throbbing, pulsating headaches - no, the entire body is affected. Sometimes the attack begins with aura symptoms, and you also suffer from nausea and/or vomiting, dizziness, exhaustion, hypersensitivity to light and noise, social isolation and depression. Migraine is a primary disease in its own right and not a symptom of another disease! Those affected are neither unwilling to work, mentally ill nor are they looking for attention. They just expect not to be discriminated against by prejudice. Three affected people describe their illness...

June 1, 2014 June 1, 2014

Kieler base ağrısı anketi

Kiel headache questionnaire in Turkish Kiel baş ağrısı anketi A quick headache diagnosis is the most important step for targeted and effective treatment. In collaboration with the Federal Association of Cluster Headache Self-Help Groups (CSG) eV, [...]

May 25, 2014 May 25, 2014

NDR THAT! May 31st, 6:45 p.m. Migraines and headaches

https://www.youtube.com/embed/bPgzgulzIsw Saturday, May 31, 2014, 6:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 1, 2014, 5:15 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. More than 70 percent of all Germans suffer 900,000 people complain about headaches and daily migraine attacks and 100,000 of them [...]

May 1, 2014 May 1, 2014

kidney and painkillers

https://www.youtube.com/embed/VRsFrOT1KXA Only use painkillers for chronic pain under medical supervision. The NDR-Viste article shows the possible effects of uncoordinated pain therapy. Kidney damage, persistent headaches and psychological complications due to misuse of headache medication require adequate follow-up. In specialized [...]

April 26, 2014 April 26, 2014

Medication overuse headache

Approximately 50% of patients with more than 15 headache days per month for at least 3 months have, in addition to the original primary form of headache, medication overuse headache (MÜK) as a causal reason for the increasing frequency of headache days. [...]

April 7, 2014 April 7, 2014

ARD Fact 8.4.: Widespread disease headaches

Migraines and other chronic headaches are the cause of the most common pain problems in humans. In recent years, extensive studies have been carried out on the burden on quality of life, the loss of ability to work, the occurrence of comorbidities and [...]

March 21, 2014 March 21, 2014

Prof. Göbel receives the German Pain Prize 2014

25th German Pain and Palliative Care Day: Professor Dr. Hartmut Göbel awarded with Pain Prize - German Prize for Pain Medicine goes to Kiel Frankfurt March 21, 2014 - For his commitment to the care of migraine and headache patients, the [...]

March 21, 2014 March 21, 2014

Prof. Käßmann: Pain and death are a reality of life

Käßmann advocates a humane approach to pain and finiteness Frankfurt, March 20, 2014 - "Pain and death in Luther's world view and what we can learn from it" was the topic of the special [...]

March 20, 2014 March 20, 2014

Prof. Spitzer: Pain and loneliness

Neuroscientific findings from the Ulm brain researcher Spitzer Frankfurt, March 20, 2014 - When people suffer from pain or loneliness, the same nerve cells are activated in the brain. This is one of the study results that the Ulm brain researcher Professor [...]

March 20, 2014 March 20, 2014

30 years of the German Society for Pain Medicine (DGS)

“30 years of DGS – and still far from reaching our goal” Interview with Dr. med. Gerhard HH Müller-Schwefe, President of the German Society for Pain Medicine eV (DGS) Dr. Müller-Schwefe, the DGS, which has been [...]

March 12, 2014 March 12, 2014

Stop headaches in children

About half of primary school children know headaches and migraines at school, in their parents' house or in their free time. Six percent of them have headaches once a week or more often. Without early help, [...]