Aerobic Exercise for Reducing Migraine Burden: Mechanisms, Markers, and Models of Change Processes

Headache

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 357-369

  Irby, Megan B ^a   Bond, Dale S ^b   Lipton, Richard B ^c   Nicklas, Barbara ^a   Houle, Timothy T ^a   Penzien, Donald B ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

aerobic exercise; aerobic fitness; endocannabinoids; inflammation; migraine; outcome expectancies; self efficacy; self management; self regulation

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; ENDOCANNABINOID; ENDORPHIN; TOPIRAMATE;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; COGNITION; DISABILITY; DISEASE MARKER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FITNESS; HEURISTICS; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SELF CARE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY; THERAPY EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EXERCISE; KINESIOTHERAPY; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PHYSIOLOGY;

EXERCISE; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84958998879     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/head.12738     Document Type: Review

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