The word migraine descends from hemicrania — half the head. One-sidedness has been considered the signature of the condition for as long as it has had a name, and the…
Aura is the strangest part of migraine and the part patients describe most vividly. A shimmering arc at the edge of vision that grows over twenty minutes. A blind spot with a…
Jaw and head pain share the trigeminal nerve. Why treating one without the other so often plateaus.
A set of questions to work through, and why ‘both’ is the most common and most useful answer.
Most self-diagnosed tension headaches are migraines. The activity test that separates them in one question.
The clinical distinctions, the convergence anatomy that lets a neck problem be felt in the head, and why the two coexist more than they compete.
Why the name changed, what the symptoms are, and why this presentation overlaps almost completely with posterior circulation stroke.
Recurrent midline belly pain in a child with normal tests between episodes – and the exclusions that must come first.
Aura is a slow neural wave, not vessel spasm. What that means, and the features that separate it from a TIA.
A deep, aching, or pressure-like pain behind one or both eyes is one of the more unsettling headache patterns, because it feels like it's coming from somewhere so close to your vision itself. Most of the time, this pain has an identifiable and manageable cause. Occasionally, it's a signal that something needs urgent attention. Understanding…