Therapy and treatment for headache, migraine and chronic headache as well as migraine.
Migraine (such as French migraine via mid-latin hemigrania, unilateral headache, from Ancient Greek ἡμικρανία hēmikrānía, "half-damaged (pain), migraine", from hēmi, "half", and cranium, "brain-shell") is a neurological disorder among which around 10 % of the population suffer. It occurs in women about three times as often as in men, but is evenly distributed between the sexes before puberty and has a diverse clinical picture. This is typically characterized in adults by a periodic, seizure-like, pulsatile, and hemiparic headache, which may be accompanied by additional symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, photosensitivity (photophobia), or sensitivity to noise (phonophobia). In some patients, a migraine attack is preceded by a migraine aura, during which, in particular, visual or sensory perceptual disturbances occur. But there are also motor disorders possible. The diagnosis is usually made after the exclusion of other diseases as causes with the help of a medical history.