Experts report the role of Neuroscience for the treatment of migraines.

-Under the motto there are sorrows that kill; but there are more cruel, which leave us life without ever allowing us to enjoy it ”, celebrates this Fifth Edition

-thanks to neuroscience diseases affecting the neuronal system as well as the way in which managed a healthy organism can learn more about

– the impact of migraine extends to many aspects of the life of who suffers from and It has a clear negative effect on productivity and labour costs

Madrid, 2011-September according to the who, a person who suffers a severe migraine attack is so incapacitated (in terms of the number of patients who consume health resources equivalent to 1,000 healthy) as a patient with tetraplegia, and more than a blind person (1). Migraine is a neurological disease prevalent, chronic, episodic, recurrent that primarily affects young women in labour and reproductive age.

In order to support and provide information on all the doctrines which offer advances in treatments of migraine from Neurology and from other medical specialties, the Spanish Association of patients with headache (AEPAC) organizes, under the motto there are sorrows that kill; but there are more cruel, which leave us life without ever allowing us to enjoy it ”, V Day for patients with migraines and other disabling headaches.

Elena Ruiz de la Torre, President of AEPAC ensures that through initiatives such as this we insist on the need for improved information, care and deal with this disease, and patients have access to the best treatments for migraine. In fact we are very happy for having achieved a proposition not of law of the Congress of deputies that marks the beginning of the recognition of the disease ”.

In this Edition, Dr. Arturo Goicoechea, head of section of Neurology of the Hospital Santiago of Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava, until his recent retirement, explains the role of Neuroscience for the treatment of migraines. Diseases affecting the neuronal system as well as the way in which managed a healthy body aside from the topical and classic paradigms of pain may know better with it.

En AEPAC support all treatments involving an improvement for the patient. From preventive and specific treatments for migraine crisis – triptanes – up home-based treatments such as oxygen kit ”, says Elena Ruiz de la Torre. Prof. Feliu Titus, Member of honor of the Spanish society of Neurology and “father” of the first classification of headaches with the International Headache Federation, is responsible for addressing this matter.

Migraine, a public health problem

Taking into account the prevalence of migraine is high across Europe: nearly 1 in 5 women and 1 out of 14 men suffer from it in the majority of European countries; It is not surprising to be neurological disease, following dementia, higher costs in Europe.

In Spain, it is estimated that, of the nearly 30 million people between 18 and 65 years, 12.6% can suffer from migraine (according to the criteria of the International Headache Disorders, IHS probable migraine). This means more than 3.5 million of migraine. This is one of the main data is extracted from the PALM survey (2).

The impact of this pathology extends to many aspects of the life of who suffers and has a clear negative effect on productivity and labour costs.

To Elena Ruiz de la Torre, the real impact of migraine on health services, the economy and the person is significant. With higher levels of support from the European Union we can reduce the burden of this disease. At the same time, it must be that patient and affected we join together to have more voice to move in this way knowledge and management of migraine ”.

A rapid and correct diagnosis, prescription and strategy of treatment appropriate to each patient and adherence to it, are crucial elements in the therapeutic success of the crises in migraine.

The work of AEPAC (Spanish Association of patients with headache)

AEPAC is an Association of patients non-profit that was founded in 2005 in the shelter of the awareness campaign on UN’s headaches

World Health. The paucity of existing information and disabling of this disease, together with the lack of a platform for the patients as it existed for more than 50 years in other European countries, motivated its Constitution as the first Spanish Association of patients with headache.

The Association has as a help to all those affected by this disease, which are people who do not know where to go or who use challenge. AEPAC helps them to find a doctor/Centre who informed about the disease, the most important news about the evolution of research in this field, the different types of headaches that exist, the closest specialized doctors, a forum for Exchange of experiences among patients, etc.

AEPAC also fights for the rights and duties of these patients to institutions and inform society about the truth of this pathology and tries to break the false myths about this disease have been created.

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Referencia:

(1) Menken et al 2000.

(2) the survey PALM: migraine and women, carried out during the year 2006 and which met 5,000 of them, 2,955 women in Spain, form part of the PALM program (Plan of action in the fight against the migraine) and it hurts me to the head, whose objective is to address and improve the problem of migraine, involving at the same time neurologists, doctors in primary care, medical specialists in occupational medicine, emergency medical, pharmaceutical, patients, the Administration, institutions and the pharmaceutical industry.