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Filter by:Acupuncture is widely used for managing acute and chronic pain conditions. In the context of an emergency department (ED), patients often present with non-emergent acute pain symptoms. This may result in a delayed triage process and inefficient emergent management. An integrative patient-care approach in emergency departments has been explored that may improve patient satisfaction and promote efficient use of healthcare resources for non-emergent patients in the ED. This implies there is a potential role for acupuncture in such contexts. The aim of this pilot study is to assess the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture as an add-on intervention for patients with non-emergent acute musculoskeletal pain and primary headaches in an ED setting. Hypotheses of this study are as follows: 1. A single session of add-on acupuncture, with standard ED management, can reduce pain levels in non-emergent acute pain, compared to standard ED management alone. 2. A single session of add-on acupuncture to standard ED management can reduce additional consumption of healthcare resources for management of non-emergent acute pain, compared to standard ED management alone. This study aimed to include 40 participants, 20 in the acupuncture plus standard ED management group and 20 in the standard ED management alone group.
The objective of the study is to evaluate the efficacy of a yoga treatment for veterans with mild post-traumatic and chronic tension-type headaches. Study Aims: - Does this yoga treatment, targeted toward specific symptoms veterans with mild post-traumatic and chronic tension-type headaches experience, assist in decreasing headaches and associated symptoms? - Does this yoga treatment, targeted toward specific symptoms veterans with mild post-traumatic and chronic tensions-type headaches experience, assist in improving quality of life? - Does this yoga treatment, targeted toward specific symptoms veterans with mild post-traumatic and chronic tension-type headaches experience, improve mood? - Do the effects of yoga on symptoms, mood, and quality of life maintain 2 months post completion of treatment?
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of Theramine® as a preventative for migraine headaches.
The purpose of this study is to determine if a special coating, applied to the surface of glasses can reduce the frequency and severity of migraine headaches in children and adolescents. This study is being conducted by researchers at Primary Children's Medical Center, The John Moran Eye Center, and the University of Utah Department of Electrical Engineering. The investigators have determined that a specific frequency of light is particularly bothersome to migraine patients. The coating they've developed is designed to block this frequency of light. Very few treatments are approved for the treatment of childhood migraine. The investigators hope that these glasses will provide a safe way to improve headaches in children.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of BOTOX® (OnabotulinumtoxinA) on the number of headache days in patients with New Daily Persistent Headache (NDPH). NDPH is a benign form of chronic daily headache that comes in two forms: one that resolves on its own after months to years, or one that is difficult to treat and does not respond to preventive or abortive medications. Some patients experience migrainous features such as nausea, vomiting, photophobia, or phonophobia. BOTOX®, a treatment approved for chronic migraine, will be injected into specific muscles of the head and neck area by your study doctor, to evaluate its effectiveness in reducing or relieving NDPH days or severity. BOTOX has not been approved for NDPH and this is the first time it will be used for treatment of NDPH. All participants in this study will only receive BOTOX® and no other study drug.
Headaches associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) cause severe pain. Headache management is complex, requiring a balance between pain control and preservation of neurological assessment. Sufficient pain control can be achieved with narcotics, however, these carry numerous undesirable side effects. Most critically, all narcotics can result in respiratory depression and sedation. For patients who present without neurological defects but debilitating pain, management is particularly challenging. The sedative effect of narcotics confounds the management of these patients by interfering with the neurological examination. Pain management is also a significant concern for patient's families as they observe suffering without full understanding of the importance of preserved mental status. In order to control the pain associated with SAH headaches, the use of narcotics is often required despite the risks. This standard therapy involves an IV bolus dose delivered by the provider regularly as needed for pain control. A common approach to reduce pain in other patient populations, including acute pain relief following major spine surgery, is patient controlled analgesia (PCA). With the PCA method, patients deliver low doses of narcotics through a pain pump with preset maximal doses and frequency of delivery. We hypothesize that this approach to pain relief for SAH headaches will result in lower pain scores, greater patient and family satisfaction scores, and increased patient safety with lower narcotic doses minimally interfering with neurological assessment.
Headache is a common chief complaint of patients presenting to the emergency department (ED), accounting for approximately 3 million ED visits per year. Headache treatment is often a source of frustration for both patients and providers. By the time patients with benign headaches arrive in the emergency department, they have often failed non-invasive therapeutic attempts and providers are often left with few therapeutic options. Treatment of benign headache varies between providers, often including systemic medications with a multitude of possible side effects. In recent years, there has been preliminary investigation into anesthetic injections for the undifferentiated headache patient presenting to the emergency department. It has been proposed that these patients presenting with benign headache might benefit from this novel treatment. Patients that present to the Emergency Department with a diagnosis of benign or primary headache with serious or life-threatening causes of headache will be offered enrollment into the study. Following consent, subjects will receive either 0.5% bupivacaine injected bilaterally in the paraspinal musculature of the cervical spine or the standard treatment with intravenous Prochlorperazine. The subjects will complete a validated pain scale before, and 20 minutes after injection. At twenty minutes post-injection, the subject will be reevaluated for symptoms. The subject will then be eligible for discharge or standard treatment at the discretion of the treating physician. Subjects will be followed for 72 hours after enrollment for headache recurrence. Subjects will be monitored for immediate and post-discharge complications.
This study will compare a fast-absorbing paracetamol plus caffeine formula with placebo and an over-the-counter dose of paracetamol and ibuprofen to treat episodic tension headache.
The objective of this randomized, double blind study is to demonstrate that one dose oral "excedrin migraine" (acetaminophen, aspirin and caffeine) is not inferior when compared to one dose of intravenous prochlorperazine for the treatment of acute migraine headaches in the emergency department.
The purpose of this research study is to test two medicines for migraine prevention in children and adolescents.