New research results document the complex headache pattern for the first time Richard Wagner suffered from severe migraines with accompanying neurological disorders Main plague of his life Kiel/London/PhoenixThe composer Richard Wagner suffered from severe migraines for many years of his life [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1. Try to reduce the stress in your life. Migraines are a neurological condition and are not caused by a stressful life. While excessive stress can certainly be a trigger, it is never the cause of migraines. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 as a causal reason for the increasing frequency of headache days per month.
The International Headache Society (IHS) has awarded Prof. Hartmut Göbel from 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 [...]
At the beginning of the year, a sufferer wrote a letter to her migraine: Dear migraine, it is still very difficult for me to become friends with you in 2014, even though I just realized again today that you are [...]
The Internet community www.headbook.me enables a detailed networking and exchange of experiences for all topics about migraine and headaches in the age of the Internet, active self-help and independent information procurement are becoming increasingly important. Our health system leaves it [...]
Our nationally and internationally widely used and popular Migraine app for iPhone and iPad was adapted to the new IOS7 in a current update at the beginning of the year and has now also been developed in a version for the iPad. With [...]
On December 13, 2013, the American 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, [...]
Wedding picture of Cosima and Richard Wagner The interview for the Wagner-BMJ article with Liliane Jolitz from the Lübecker Nachrichten Lübecker Nachrichten: As a migraine expert, you are known far beyond Germany. Apparently [...]
