Behavioral management of migraine headache triggers: Learning to cope with triggers

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 221-227

  Martin, Paul R ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioral management; Coping; Headache; Migraine; Migraine triggers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CONDITIONING; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MENSTRUATION; MIGRAINE; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PRECIPITATING FACTORS;

EID: 77956358851     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0112-z     Document Type: Review

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