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Discussing Migraine With Your Patients

A Common Sense Guide for Clinicians

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Authors:
  1. Dawn A. Marcus

    1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

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  2. Duren Michael Ready

    1. Fellow American Headache Society, Temple, USA

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  • First resource available to exclusively focus on communicating the messages about headache to patients

  • Provides a practical approach to headache management, using tried-and-true explanations and techniques that are easy to understand for patients with difficult-to-treat migraine

  • Covers all aspects of acute headache care for adult patients and also includes care of the child and adolescent with acute headaches, treatment of pregnant and breastfeeding women with acute headaches and appropriate evaluation of secondary headaches

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Sorting Through Headache Patterns

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 1-20

  3. Looking for the Migraine Gene

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 21-26

  4. The Sensitive Migraine Brain

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 27-32

  5. Migraine Is More Than “Just a Headache”

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 33-47

  6. Accepting Migraines

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 49-59

  7. The Migraine Team

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 61-69

  8. The Dos and Don’ts of Headache Diaries

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 71-82

  9. Using Behavioral Therapy as a Treatment Foundation

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 83-102

  10. Changing Thoughts and Attitudes About Migraine

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 103-111

  11. When, How Much, and How Often

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 113-133

  12. What to Try When Nothing’s Working

    • Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready
    Pages 135-191

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 193-251
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About this book

This engaging and highly practical title is designed to support healthcare professionals in providing the best possible care for their patients with migraine. Developed by two leading authorities in the field who bring wit and warmth to their writing, the book combines the valuable wisdom of their clinical expertise with cutting edge scientific synthesis and helpful clinical pearls. Replete with a plethora of instructional aids and clinical tools (such as patient handouts, questionnaires, checklists, video clips, and quick-reference boxes), Discussing Migraine with Your Patients: A Common Sense Guide for Clinicians reviews migraine treatment in an evidence-based manner -- according to the empirical data and FDA and consensus-based guidelines. Discussion topics include acute and preventive pharmacotherapy, medical interventions and devices, behavioral and psychological nonpharmacologic therapies, education, trigger management, healthy lifestyle practices, stress management, neutraceuticals, and alternative medicine offerings. In addition, this easy-to-read title covers genetics and pathophysiology, symptoms and comorbidities, and a range of essential clinical skills that are useful in achieving the best possible outcomes with patients. In invaluable addition to the literature, this title will serve as the ultimate go-to resource for primary care clinicians and trainees. Headache specialists, too, will find value in this work. 

Reviews

“This is a volume with a lot in it and a lot to offer to many who read it. It is worth taking it for a spin and using some of these ‘talking points’ on a regular basis. Hopefully these techniques help some of your patients and in the process, help readers, including myself, understand the important role humanity plays for patients who entrust their care to us daily.” (R. Allan Purdy, Headache - The Journal of Head and Face Pain, Vol. 57 (9), October, 2017)


“This is a book that opens up possibilities for people with headache and those who care for them. Dawn A. Marcus, MD, and Duren Michael Ready, MD, provide a welcome addition to the essential titles for helping primary care and headache specialists provide the best care for those with common and complex headache disorders.” (Robert A. Bonakder, Practical Pain Management, practicalpainmanagement.com, August, 2017)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

    Dawn A. Marcus

  • Fellow American Headache Society, Temple, USA

    Duren Michael Ready

About the authors

Dawn A. Marcus, MD
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA, USA 

Duren Michael Ready, MD
Fellow American Headache Society
Springfield, MO, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Discussing Migraine With Your Patients

  • Book Subtitle: A Common Sense Guide for Clinicians

  • Authors: Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6484-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-6482-6Published: 15 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-6484-0Published: 14 October 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 251

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 36 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Internal Medicine, Primary Care Medicine, Neurology, Emergency Medicine

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