The Headache Centre of the F Spaziani ASL FR Hospital is among the 143 facilities throughout the national territory that have joined the new Onda Foundation project dedicated to the identification of hospitals that offer courses and services dedicated to the management of migraines in the different phases of a woman’s life.
The initiative, presented in Milan, was born in response to an epidemiological scenario that sees migraine recognized as a gender pathology, which mainly affects women in young adulthood, who develop more severe forms than men, manifesting higher levels of disability and a greater number of comorbidities.
There are 6 million people who suffer from migraines in Italy and of these 4 million are women. The maximum prevalence is also reached in the fourth and fifth decades of life, therefore in the period of greater labour and social productivity.
The Spaziani Headache Centre
The Headache Center of the F. Spaziani Hospital in Frosinone, belonging to the Neurology UOC directed by Dr. Roberto De Simone, is characterized by a health offer capable of guaranteeing migraine patients multidisciplinary skills, a protocol for the management of menstrual migraine, a contraceptive counselling service aimed at the patient with migraine, a care in pregnancy and lactation, the promotion of research activities on migraine in the different stages of life of the woman.
Center contact Dr. Laura Borrello: “The clinic has been active for many years – she explains – and presents a health offer that in the last 5 years has grown considerably in terms of quantity and quality of services: cap Headache (complex outpatient packages), Outpatient Clinic for Botulinum Toxin, Specialist Headache Clinic (Friday 8.00-14), Neurological Control Televisits. Multidisciplinary collaborations have recently been activated with the Women’s Health Center and with the Clinical Nutrition Outpatient Clinic in Pain Therapy. There are over 400 patients currently in care suffering from migraine, headache or craniofacial pain. In addition to the most classic pharmacological therapies in the acute phase and prophylaxis, treatments with botulinum toxin and monoclonal antibodies are also used “. The Centre is recognised by the Lazio Region as prescribing innovative and specific drugs for the treatment of chronic and episodic migraine with a high frequency of seizures (anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies).
How to access
It is accessed via CUP with a request from the General Practitioner for “first neurological examination of the Frosinone headache centre”. For contacts: email address centrocefalee.hfr@aslfrosinone.it.
