Dr K Ravishankar discusses the need to educate patients about migraine so they understand the aims of treatment, and he stresses the importance of treating the disease, not just the attack.
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In the final video in the series, Dr K Ravishankar calls for more progress to be made in improving migraine care in India and presents a roadmap for achieving the changes that are needed.
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Dr K Ravishankar describes his approach to the treatment of episodic and chronic migraine, and how he addresses the challenge of patients who present with medication overuse headache.
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Turning to drugs used to prevent migraine attacks in India, Dr K Ravishankar discusses the range currently available to doctors and patients, and the impact of newer agents in chronic migraine.
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In the fifth video in the series, Dr K Ravishankar assesses the availability of drugs for the treatment of acute attacks of migraine in India, including the newer agents that doctors are hearing about.
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Dr K Ravishankar divides the reasons for under-diagnosis of migraine in India into patient- and physician-related issues, and explains that much depends on whether a patient can afford care.
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Dr K Ravishankar reviews the multiple barriers to migraine diagnosis that mean many people are unaware of the cause of their headaches and are unable to access the levels of specialist care that they need.
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Dr K Ravishankar describes the main migraine triggers to consider when assessing a patient in India as some are quite different from those reported in the medical literature based on studies in Europe and America.
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Migraine affects approximately 33 crore (330 million) people in India, and is responsible for a significant proportion of disability associated with neurological disorders, as Dr K Ravishankar explains.
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