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Ways to Prevent Migraines
Start With the Basics
Nutrients
Use an App
Monitor and Manage Stress
Migraine Prevention Medication
Botox
Be Aware of Your Menstrual Cycle
Watch the Weather
Acupuncture
Tinted Glasses
At-Home Devices
Review Your Medicines
Medical Marijuana
Don't Wait for Pain
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SOURCES:
New England Journal of Medicine: "Migraine."
American Migraine Foundation: "ABC's of Headache Trigger Management," "Mythbusters: Migraine Remedies," "Tips for Starting Yoga in Adults with Migraines," "Preventive Treatments," "Weather and Migraine," "Migraine, Hay Fever, Asthma and Allergies," "Spotlight On: Neuromodulation Devices for Headache."
Headache: "Aerobic Exercise for Reducing Migraine Burden: Mechanisms, Markers, and Models of Change Processes," "Forecasting Individual Headache Attacks Using Perceived Stress: Development of a Multivariable Prediction Model for Persons With Episodic Migraine," "Headache Toolbox: Menstrual Migraine."
Cephalalgia: "Exercise as migraine prophylaxis: a randomized study using relaxation and topiramate as controls," "Towards improved migraine management: Determining potential trigger factors in individual patients."
Migraine Trust (UK): "Supplements and Herbs," "Botulinum toxin (Botox®)."
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements: Riboflavin: Fact Sheet for Health Professionals."
Neurology: "Melatonin for Adolescent Migraine Prevention: A Pilot Internet-based Randomized Controlled Trial (P2.163)."
Food & Nutrition Research: "Dietary factors and fluctuating levels of melatonin."
Journal of Headache and Pain: "Anxiety and depression symptoms and migraine: a symptom-based approach research."
International Journal of Yoga: "Effect of Yoga on migraine: A comprehensive study using clinical profile and cardiac autonomic functions."
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes: "Measuring the impact of migraine for evaluating outcomes of preventive treatments for migraine headaches."
National Migraine Centre: "Botox for Migraine."
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine: "Acupuncture."
Cochrane: "Acupuncture for preventing migraine attacks."
JAMA Internal Medicine: "The Long-term Effect of Acupuncture for Migraine Prophylaxis."
Current Treatment Options in Neurology: "Anti-CGRP Monoclonal Antibodies: the Next Era of Migraine Prevention?"
MABS: "Antibodies to watch in 2017."
Nutrients: "Impact of Food Components on in vitro Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide Secretion -- A Potential Mechanism for Dietary Influence on Migraine."
ClinicalTrials.gov: "Spectacle Tints and Thin-Films for Migraine."
Project CDB: "CBD Locator."
Department of Health, Government of the District of Columbia: "Medical Cannabis, Adverse Effects & Drug Interactions."
3rd European Academy of Neurology Congress, Amsterdam, 2017: "Cannabinoids suitable for migraine prevention."