Massaging over the greater occipital nerve reduces the intensity of migraine attacks: Evidence for inhibitory trigemino-cervical convergence mechanisms

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 65, Issue 3 A, 2007, Pages 599-604

  Piovesan, Elcio Juliato ^a   Di Stani, Fabrizio ^b   Kowacs, Pedro André ^a   Mulinari, Rogério Andrade ^a   Radunz, Victor Hugo ^a   Utiumi, Marco ^a   Muranka, Eder B ^a   Giublin, Mario Luiz ^a   Werneck, Lineu César ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

DNIC; Inhibitory control of pain; Migraine

Indexed keywords

ANTIMIGRAINE AGENT; DIPYRONE; METROCLOPRAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MASSAGE; MIGRAINE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 34548813377     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: 16784227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-282X2007000400010     Document Type: Article

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