Integrative Headache Medicine: An Evidence-Based Guide for Clinicians

This practical and comprehensive title offers evidence-based approaches in headache medicine for using traditional medical therapies in conjunction with alternative approaches to care, leading to improved patient outcomes and reduced stress. It provides an overview of integrative medicine, discusses lifestyle factors, mind-body therapies, nutraceuticals, neuromodulation, and interventional approaches, and is of interest to neurologists, pain physicians, primary care clinicians, behavioral psychologists, psychiatrists, physical therapists, social workers, nutritionists, and other health professionals.

Format: Hardback
Length: 283 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2021
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This practical and comprehensive title offers insightful, evidence-based approaches in headache medicine for utilizing traditional medical therapies alongside alternative approaches to care. In total, the book delves into how multidisciplinary management and the combination of conventional and complementary medical services – integrative medicine – leads to superior patient outcomes: enhanced patient satisfaction, reduced stress, and more readily treatable, less serious illnesses.

State-of-the-art and developed by experts in their fields, these 12 chapters present research and analysis of a wide range of non-pharmacologic interventions in headache care, seeking to inspire clinicians to formulate personalized headache treatment plans and to work together by integrating their expertise in a multidisciplinary context to address patients' unique conditions, needs, circumstances, and treatment.

Chapter one provides an overview of integrative medicine and proposes a step-wise approach for incorporating integrative modalities into a headache practice. Chapter two focuses on the attention to be paid to relevant aspects of a patient's medical history. The next four chapters discuss lifestyle factors that play a role in headache, including trigger identification, exercise, nutrition, and sleep. The scope of mind-body therapies such as acupuncture, yoga, and mindfulness is explored in chapter seven, and the psychology of pain is the subject of chapter eight. Chapter nine investigates the safety and efficacy of nutraceuticals, or pharmaceutical alternatives. The final three chapters review neuromodulation and interventional approaches to headache management.

An invaluable and timely contribution to the clinical literature, Integrative Headache Medicine – An Evidence-Based Guid.

Weight: 696g
Dimension: 160 x 242 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030715120
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021