What is it about?
Chronic daily headaches are cumbersome and challenging for societies and healthcare systems worldwide. There is no satisfactory pharmaceutical intervention for the management of these headaches. However, a new type of intervention (transcranial Direct Current Stimulation or tDCS) has been developed recently. However, it is widely available throughout the world. But the parameters such as mode of application, session design, session duration, number of sessions, size of electrodes, and electrode placement on the skull are controversial.
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Why is it important?
In the present study, we addressed these issues adequately. Based on the common core of neuropsychiatric diseases and disorders and our previous works, we concluded that tDCS with this specific protocol could manage the symptoms of chronic daily headaches and comorbidities like depression, anxiety, and stress or Restless Legs Syndrome. The results confirmed our hypothesis and showed that tDCS with a proper protocol could be a sufficient monotherapy for managing chronic daily headaches and comorbidities like depression, anxiety, stress, or Restless Legs Syndrome.
Perspectives
Chronic daily headaches are transitional and result from bad coping strategies, including strategies, family advice, inappropriate diagnosis, and mismatch interventions. Prescribing depression-related or epilepsy-related medications for migraine or tension-type headaches are prominent instances of mismatch interventions. These types of interventions have numerous undesirable side effects. Therefore, providing individuals with chronic daily headaches and comorbidities like depression, anxiety, and stress or Restless Legs Syndrome with a novel intervention with undesirable effects is invaluable.
Mohammad Dawood Rahimi
Herat University
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This page is a summary of: Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Chronic Daily Headaches: An Experimental Single Case Report with a Novel Protocol, Case Reports in Neurology, September 2022, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000527021.
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