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Below you will find the contributions to the migraine and headache chat on February 16, 2015. You can read detailed information about this and all current topics on diagnostics and treatment at headbook.me It wrote on February 16, 2015 at 1:56 pm [...]
The Schleswig-Holstein branch of the Association of Substitute Health Insurance Funds (vdek) publishes the Substitute Health Insurance Funds Report several times a year. In the December 2014 Substitute Health Insurance Funds Report, Prof. Hartmut Göbel explains his approach to coordinated multimodal pain therapy. The full text can be found [...]
The women's meeting of the Working Group for the Promotion of the Hearing Impaired in the Greater Kiel Area is organizing a lecture on “Current treatment options for headaches and migraines”, to which men are also cordially invited. The speaker is Prof. Dr. Hartmut Göbel from the [...]
An event for medical assistants from private practice, hospitals and nursing on November 22, 2014 from 9:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. at the Kiel Pain Clinic, Heikendorfer Weg 9-27, 24149 Kiel […]
As in previous years, the 2014 Migraine and Headache Masterclass is designed for doctors and therapists who have already acquired in-depth experience in research, clinical diagnostics and treatment of migraine and headache disorders. [...]
Approximately 11.1 million pupils were taught at general education and vocational schools in Germany during the 2013/14 school year (Federal Statistical Office 2014). 8.4 million pupils attended general education schools. About half of the children [...]
Migraines are caused by a genetic disorder in processing stimuli. This innate special sensitivity to stimuli leads to episodic migraine attacks. However, it also has an effect between attacks. The migraine patient's nervous system reacts particularly sensitively to [...]
Migraine sufferers are constantly under the sword of Damocles of being struck by a migraine attack. Long-term planning is only possible to a limited extent for those affected, as they must always expect to be out of work for one to three days.
In approximately 10% of people who suffer from migraines, the actual migraine attack begins with neurological disorders. The time phase in which these disturbances can be observed is called the aura. The origin of the word aura is [...]
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...
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, [...]
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. [...]
Nausea and vomiting are among the characteristic symptoms of migraines. Studies show that the absorption of analgesics is delayed during migraine attacks. The cause is assumed to be a disturbed gastric peristalsis during a migraine attack. This is where the rationale [...]
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 [...]
New research documents the complex headache suffering| The composer was tortured by severe migraine with neurological accompanying symptoms | Main plague of his life Kiel/London/Phoenix March 28, 2014. The composer Richard Wagner suffered from severe migraine with [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
Play video: click on image. Wednesday, March 12, 2014, at 8:15 p.m. on SWR Television. Nausea, dizziness, racing headaches: Approximately eight million people in Germany suffer from migraines. "betrifft" will dedicate its Wednesday program to this topic, [...]
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, [...]
