Category: Social Life

Tips for Athletes with Migraine

Whether you’re a professional athlete or play sports casually, migraines can affect your ability to participate in athletics. Being aware of how to manage your symptoms and prevent migraine attacks are key to limiting the effect of migraines on your athletic commitments. Here are a…

Travelling tips when you live with migraine

Are you in the midst of planning a trip and concerned about how migraines will affect your travels? We’ve put together this list of commonly asked questions and answers to help you. Is travelling a bad idea if I get migraines? The answer to this…

How many people have headaches?

Headache is a common symptom that can be caused more than 200 different medical problems (see this link). Some causes are very visible (like brain tumors), but the most common causes like migraine and tension type headache are not visible on available imaging. Tension type…

What should your employer know about migraine?

Does your employer understand what migraine is? Here are a few informations that could be worth sharing.  1. Migraine is more than a headache  Migraine is not only a headache. It is accompanied by other symptoms like Sensitivity to light, sounds, smells and movement.  Nausea…

Migraine in School

What is the effect of migraine on school activities? Migraine is common in children and adolescents as well as university students. Before puberty, 10% of children, boys and girls equally, have migraine.  Disabling and frequent migraine attacks can have an impact on the quality of…