Discussing Migraine With Your Patients: A Common Sense Guide for Clinicians

by Dawn A. Marcus, Duren Michael Ready

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493964826
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/15/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	251
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

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

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Sorting Through Headache Patterns.- Chapter 2. Looking for the Migraine Gene.- Chapter 3. The Sensitive Migraine Brain.- Chapter 4. Migraine Is More than "Just a Headache".- Chapter 5. Accepting Migraines.- Chapter 6. The Migraine Team.- Chapter 7. The Do’s and Don’ts of Headache Diaries.- Chapter 8. Using Behavioral Therapy as a Treatment Foundation.- Chapter 9. Changing Thoughts and Attitudes About Migraine.- Chapter 10. When, How Much, and How Often.- Chapter 11. What to Try When Nothing's Working.- Appendix 1. Patient Handouts.- Appendix 2. Patient and Physician Resources.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Vincent F Carr, DO, MSA, FACC, FACP (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)
Description: This book gives clinicians an approach for explaining the diagnosis and treatment options to their patients suffering with migraine headaches.
Purpose: Designed as an aid for teaching patients, this book includes some discussion of physiology, but more in lay terms than in traditional medical terminology.
Audience: The audience includes every clinician who may diagnose and treat patients suffering from migraine headaches.
Features: In keeping with the focus of the book, the initial chapters discuss what a migraine is, the causes, and how to work with patients in accepting the diagnosis, eliminating the risk factors that can precipitate a migraine, and other approaches to treatment. A number of chapters cover specific nonpharmacological treatments and have patient handouts for migraines. There is a link to an electronic version of the book that is not included in the price. The book states that there are videos available, but they were not accessible at the website.
Assessment: This is an exceptional teaching aid for clinicians to help their patients with migraines mitigate the disruptions that migraines can cause. As such, it is a valuable addition to the primary care clinician's library.

Doody's Review Service

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)

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