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!
What is hope? The dictionary definition of hope is ‘a feeling of desire for a certain thing to happen.’ What does that mean to a person with chronic headache? It is neither the expectation or wish that their pain will ease or end. Rather it is allowing for the possibility that what is desired may … Continue reading Hope and chronic headache
Your patient has passed the next step, by graduating from high school. They have chosen their next path- going to college. They are so pleased to tell you all about it, and you are so proud of them. This is also a time of both positive and negative stress. Perhaps high school was really hard … Continue reading Thriving with college accommodations
My last posts have focused on migraine abortives and analgesia for kids with migraine. Here I will continue to review medications and strategies for rescue, focusing on adjuvants and combination medications. These medications are the 3rd leg of the plan which are used to treat migraine. . There are several medications that are used either … Continue reading Revisiting migraines part 4: adjuvant medications and combination therapies
It is quite common for patients with migraine and headaches to have a coexisting psychiatric co-morbidity, such as anxiety or depression. In fact, headache and psychological distress share the same risk factors, such as environmental stressors and genetic predisposition. Headache history may predispose a patient to psychopathology and psychopathology may predispose a patient to headache. … Continue reading Headaches and psychiatric co-morbidities, part 1
It’s August, and lots of my patients getting ready to go off to college, either as freshmen or as sophomores, whose freshman year was spent at home doing college over zoom. It is an exciting and scary time for them (and their parents), especially with the continuing uncertainly of the Covid pandemic. I have had … Continue reading Off to college during the pandemic
The most recent volume (June 2021) of Pediatric Pain Letter (www.childpain.org/ppl) contains a review of my book, Getting Ahead of Pediatric Headaches. The review was done by Angelina Koehler, CPNP, a pediatric headache provider at Children’s Hospital of Colorado in Denver. Ms Koehler reviews the book thoroughly, covering the main areas of information presented. This … Continue reading My book is reviewed!
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!!!
Getting Ahead of Pediatric Headaches: A comprehensive guide for Nurse Practitioners to manage headaches in children and adolescents I started my blog as a way to communicate to pediatric providers about the care of pediatric patients with all kinds of headaches. Over time, I decided to turn it into a book. I felt that the … Continue reading My book is available!!!
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