I have not posted for a few months, so many things have been coming up. I was recovering from a 2nd hip surgery and getting back to work. Also I was considering and dealing with a retirement offer from my institution. The good news is that I am retired now as of 4/30! But boy … Continue reading The next chapter
Working in pediatrics means guiding our patients from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. This is usually a natural progression, based on society’s norms and our schooling systems. It is an exciting and scary time for our children and for their parents. Having headaches and migraines is not something that just goes away once your child … Continue reading Moving into adulthood
My new book is now available for all! I am very pleased to announce this event, a work in progress for a number of years. I hope this book will bring some well needed and up-to-date education and information to the world of pediatric headache and migraine. Here’s the press release: Getting Ahead of Your … Continue reading My new book is available!
I have not posted in a while for a lot of reasons- big travel trip, full time work and community service activities, health challenges. But most of all, I have been working on my new book for families. It has always been my goal to write an educational book about kids and headaches. There are … Continue reading It’s time for new book!
About 5 years ago, we started an initiative for the treatment of New Daily Persistent Headache. We have a large population of teens with this difficult, constant headache. There’s a reason why they call it persistent, as it is fairly refractory to treatment with the usual headache/migraine approaches, and the average lifespan of NDPH is … Continue reading NDPH update- lidocaine infusion
The Covid 19 pandemic has changed the educational and work practices and norms for all of us. With the advent of significantly more virtual or remote learning and working, we are all exposed to much more screen time than ever before, as well as figuring out home office configurations. For people with headaches and migraines … Continue reading Managing screen time and headaches
Ever notice that your patients with migraine and headache often have other medical issues? Well, there are a number of common coexisting medical conditions which are often associated with migraine and headache. Frequently these issues are associated with pain, and are referred to as overlapping pain conditions. Examples of these types of overlapping pain conditions … Continue reading Migraine and headache and pain conditions
Oh my goodness, along with the Covid 19 pandemic, there has been a significant uptick in anxiety, among my patients with headaches, especially the teens and young adults. This has been clear since about mid-October. Historically, there is the usual ramp up of anxiety, worry, lack of coping, that tends to happen around this time … Continue reading Anxiety!!!
Children and teens with headache and migraine have been affected in a variety of ways by these pandemic times. Thinking back, there has been a difference between last spring and this fall and the effect on my patients, particularly in the school environment. I will refer back to specific chapters in my book ‘Getting ahead … Continue reading Pandemic reflections
The pandemic and its impact on life and work have consumed most of us during the past 6 months. So many choices and many not in our power to make. All vacations cancelled-no trip to Africa this June, no headache conference. Limited in-person interaction both at work and in life. Lack of control over most … Continue reading Managing headaches during the pandemic, part 2
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