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All information on headache research, headache diagnostics and headache therapy

April 7, 2014 April 7, 2014

ARD Fact 8.4.: Headaches – a common ailment

Migraines and other chronic headaches are the most common cause of pain problems in humans. In recent years, extensive studies have therefore been conducted on their impact on quality of life, loss of work capacity, 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 pain prize – German Advancement Award 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 for a humane approach to pain and mortality. Frankfurt, March 20, 2014 – “Pain and death in Luther’s worldview and what we can learn from it” was the theme of the special [...]

March 20, 2014 March 20, 2014

Prof. Spitzer: Pain and Loneliness

Neuroscientific findings by 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 presented by Ulm brain researcher Professor [...]

March 20, 2014 March 20, 2014

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

“30 Years of the DGS – and Still Far From Finished” Interview with Dr. Gerhard HH Müller-Schwefe, President of the German Society for Pain Medicine (DGS) Dr. Müller-Schwefe, the DGS, which has been around for 30 [...]

March 13, 2014 March 13, 2014

Subject: Migraine, a common ailment, on SWR

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, [...]

March 12, 2014 March 12, 2014

Stop headaches in children

Approximately half of all primary school children experience headaches and migraines at school, at home, or during leisure time. Six percent of them have headaches once a week or more frequently. Without early intervention, [...]

March 12, 2014 March 12, 2014

DGS Practice Guideline: Primary Headache Disorders

The DGS Practice Guidelines are a project of the German Society for Pain Medicine (DGS) and the German Pain League (DSL). Their purpose is to develop comprehensive research and analysis of available scientific data, as well as [...]

February 21, 2014 February 21, 2014

Center for Rare Headache Disorders

Among the 363 main headache diagnoses currently classified, in addition to the common conditions of migraine and tension-type headache, are a number of very rare headache disorders. These include, in particular, episodic and chronic cluster headache (CK), which [...]

February 2, 2014 February 2, 2014

ONS instructions and emergency ID card

ONS Service Material ONS Quick Guide - IPG ONS IPG Supine Position Emergency Instructions ONS IPG Prone Position Emergency Instructions For patients with therapy-resistant chronic migraine pain who do not respond adequately to other treatment methods, [...]

February 1, 2014 February 1, 2014

Development of medication overuse headache

By far the most common cause of migraine occurring on 15 or more days per month, or of a mixed picture of migraine and tension-type headaches with 15 or more headache days per month, is [...]

January 16, 2014 January 16, 2014

Medication overuse headache: 10-20 rule

Approximately 50% of patients with more than 15 headache days per month for at least 3 months have, in addition to their original primary headache disorder, medication overuse headache as a contributing factor to the increasing frequency of headache days per month [...]

January 14, 2014 January 14, 2014

Headache Master School 2013, Tokyo, Japan

The International Headache Society (IHS) has awarded Prof. Hartmut Göbel of the Kiel Pain Clinic the international certificate “Headache Master accredited by the International Headache Society”. The Headache Master program was one of the most significant innovations in 2013 [...]

January 4, 2014 January 4, 2014

Networking and self-help: www.headbook.me

The online community www.headbook.me facilitates in-depth networking and the exchange of experiences on all topics related to migraines and headaches. In the internet age, active self-help and independent information gathering are becoming increasingly important. Our healthcare system allows [...]

December 15, 2013 December 15, 2013

New FDA approval: Magnetic stimulation for migraines

On December 13, 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the approval of a new acute migraine therapy using magnetic stimulation. The procedure is known as "Cerena transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)." This is the first approval of a medical device [...]