Neurologist Publishes "Migraine NOW: Breaking Prejudice"

Director Kwak Taeho Shares a Practical Treatment Guide
Drawing on 25 Years of Clinical Experience

Kwak Taeho, director of Bundang Riche Internal Medicine & Neurology Clinic and a neurologist specializing in headaches who has treated more than 100,000 patients over his 25 years in clinical practice, has published a new book titled "Migraine NOW: Breaking Prejudice."

The book opens with the real-life stories of six patients the author met in his clinic. These include a patient who was bedridden for ten years due to dizziness, a patient who was diagnosed with migraine as the cause after undergoing five dental implants, a nun in her seventies who considered her lifelong visual hallucinations to be religious experiences, and a middle school student who was in so much pain she could hardly attend school. The cause of suffering for all of them was migraine.

However, it took an average of more than five years for these patients to receive an accurate diagnosis. The author addresses the various problems of migraines that present as dizziness, tooth pain, visual hallucinations, and gastrointestinal symptoms. In addition, this clinical notebook includes information for domestic patients suffering from such symptoms on new medications, diagnostic tests, headache measurement tools, and communication methods that can be requested from their physicians.

Rather than simply providing clinical knowledge as information, the book also proposes actionable steps that can be used in daily life. For example, it offers practical and easy-to-understand advice, in a conversational style, on management methods that patients and their families can implement every day, such as having migraine sufferers record their sleep patterns in a "headache diary."

The book was published by BOOKK and is priced at 17,500 won for the paperback and 15,000 won for the e-book.

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