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ReviewCurrent pain and headache reports2016

Invasive and Non-invasive Electrical Pericranial Nerve Stimulation for the Treatment of Chronic Primary Headaches.

Kevin D'Ostilio, Delphine Magis

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Review in Current pain and headache reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Treatment Update of Chronic Migraine.Current pain and headache reports · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kevin D'OstilioHeadache Research Unit, University Department of Neurology, CHR Citadelle, Boulevard du 12ème de Ligne 1, 4000, Liège, Belgium.
Delphine MagisHeadache Research Unit, University Department of Neurology, CHR Citadelle, Boulevard du 12ème de Ligne 1, 4000, Liège, Belgium. dmagis@chu.ulg.ac.be.
Centre hospitalier régional de la Citadelle · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chronic primary headaches are widespread disorders which cause significant quality of life and socioprofessional impairment. Available pharmacological treatments have often a limited efficacy and/or can generate unbearable side effects. Electrical nerve stimulation is a well-known non-destructive method of pain modulation which has been recently applied to headache management. In this review, we summarise recent advances in invasive and non-invasive neurostimulation techniques targeting pericranial structures for the treatment of chronic primary headaches, chiefly migraine and cluster headache: occipital nerve, supraorbital nerve, vagus nerve, and sphenopalatine ganglion stimulations. Invasive neurostimulation therapies have offered a new hope to drug-refractory headache sufferers but are not riskless and should be proposed only to chronic patients who failed to respond to most existing preventives. Non-invasive neurostimulation devices are user-friendly, safe and well tolerated and are thus taking an increasing place in the multidisciplinary therapeutical armamentarium of primary headaches.

Indexed as

Deep Brain StimulationCranial NervesHeadache DisordersHumansMigraine DisordersPeripheral NervesHeadacheMigraineNeurostimulationOccipital nerveSphenopalatine ganglionSupraorbital nerveTreatmentVagus nerve

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PMID27678260
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