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Article: Improving sleep habits may benefit the chronic migraine.(Clinical Rounds)
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- Family Practice News
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- September 1, 2005
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PHILADELPHIA -- Insomnia and poor sleep habits may be the cause of the transformation from episodic to chronic migraine, Anne H. Calhoun, M.D., said in a poster session at the annual meeting of the American Headache Society.
This hypothesis turns on its head the former paradigm, which was that pain causes medication overuse, which causes migraines to become chronic, which then leads to insomnia and sleep problems.
But insomnia and poor sleep habits may be the cause and not the result of migraine's transformation to chronic.
Based on this assumption, Dr. Calhoun, a neurologist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, conducted a study ...