In this blog experimental, clinical, and pharmacological evidence linking the extracranial terminal branches of the external carotid artery to migraine pain is presented.
Over the years there has been a considerable amount of controversy over whether the vascular component of migraine pain arises from the intracranial or the extracranial vessels, or both.
Worse than childbirth, worse than accidental amputation. A pain so acute, old medical books referred to the condition as the “suicide headache” because it was not uncommon that cluster headache sufferers would take their lives to escape it.
