Understanding Your Migraines: A Guide for Patients and Families
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0190209151 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Levin earned an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and his medical degree at Chicago Medical School. He is Treasurer of the Headache Cooperative of New England and certified in the subspecialty of Headache Medicine by the United Council for Neurologic Subspecialties. Ward is a Fellow of the American Headache Society and of the American Academy of Neurology as well as the American Neurological Association. He graduated from Dartmouth Colle
Peppered with patient cases to show how to successfully deal with a variety of headache issues, the authors address common concerns in an easy-to-read and comprehensive manner, making this a must-have on every bedside table.. Understanding Your Migraine: A Guide for Patients and Families brings together the expertise of two eminent headache neurologists, Dr. Thomas Ward, who have each been caring for headache patients for more than 35 years. But even with those numbers, why are we still plagued with this disorder and what can we do, in our daily lives, to manage this devastating and demoralizing brain illness? Understanding Your Migraines: A Guide for Patients and Families addresses, in clear prose: · The impact migraines can have on your life, and your family's;· How to communicate and work with your medical team to mak
Understanding Your Migraines now provides welcome and authoritative guidance from two renowned migraine doctors and researchers. "Finally, a book that takes years of clinical experience and decades of scientific discoveries and boils them down into simple, easy-to-understand language, giving patients insight they can use to manage their headaches successfully. This book is useful in that it reinforces what we clinicians tell our patients but also provides education on topics that may not have not been broached during the visit." --Lawrence C. Shapiro, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurological Sciences, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT. While we headache medicine specialists discuss these issues with our patients not all clinicians have the time or the expertise required. Newman, MD, Director, The Headache Institute, Mount Sinai St. E