by Peggy Baker | Jan 9, 2018 | Clinical, Research
by Larry Robbins, MD Medication overuse headache (MOH) is very frequently diagnosed; however, the MOH diagnosis is often overused. Patients are labeled as having MOH when what they actually suffer from are refractory headaches, without medication overuse (MO)....
by Peggy Baker | Nov 5, 2017 | Clinical, Research
Migraine is a very common and disabling illness. Picking an agent that is best for each individual patient requires considering the patient’s history, lifestyle, comorbid conditions, and individual preferences. Migraine headaches are a common cause of disability in...
by Peggy Baker | Oct 31, 2017 | Clinical, News
I had an opportunity to sit down with Geralyn Datz, PhD, past president of SPS, after her session on “Biopsychosocial Approaches to Treating Chronic Pain and Headache” at our recent meeting in New Orleans. One of the topics you addressed in your talk was how there has...
by Peggy Baker | Aug 3, 2017 | Clinical, News
by Geralyn Datz, PhD The Opioid Epidemic has forced providers and insurers to re-evaluate the way chronic pain is treated both short and long term. As a result, there has been a renewed interest in non-medical based treatments that restore pain patients, particularly...
by Peggy Baker | Aug 3, 2017 | Clinical, News
by Michele Erich, MM, CCLS, MT-BC and Ann Quinlan-Colwell, PhD, RN-BC, AHNBC, DAAPM News reports are replete with stories about the problems of opioid use disorder (OUD) and over dose deaths [1,2]. A reasonable approach to addressing this health care crisis is...
by Peggy Baker | May 5, 2017 | Clinical, News, Research
by Ann Quinlan-Colwell, PhD, RN-BC, DAAPM During 2014, patients were admitted more frequently with diagnoses of soft tissue abscesses, epidural abscesses, and endocarditis. Two common denominators, among many of these patients, were a history of self-administering...
