Acute Pharmacotherapy of Tension-Type Headaches Ninan T. Mathew Messoud Ashina This chapter discusses the treatment of individual attacks of headache in patients with episodic and chronic tension-type headache. Most headache…
Physiotherapy of Tension-Type Headaches Rigmor Jensen Julie Mills Roth Physiotherapy is often used in the treatment of tension-type headache (TTH) despite limited scientific evidence demonstrating efficacy. In the field of…
Psychological Treatments of Tension-Type Headaches Kenneth A. Holroyd Paul R. Martin Justin M. Nash In this chapter, we address the following questions: (a) What is psychological treatment? (b) How effective…
General Approach to Treatment of Tension-Type Headaches Richard C. Peatfield John G. Edmeads Tension-type headache (TTH) is extremely common; its epidemiology is discussed in detail in Chapter 67. It is…
Differential Diagnosis and Prognosis of Tension-Type Headaches Jean Schoenen Rigmor Jensen DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS According to the second edition of the International Headache Society’s (IHS) International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-II…
Symptomatology of Chronic Tension-Type Headaches Rigmor Jensen Werner J. Becker Except for its frequency, chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) is similar to frequent episodic tension-type headache (ETTH) in most of its…
Symptomatology of Episodic Tension-Type Headaches Rigmor Jensen Werner J. Becker In its milder and infrequent forms, episodic tension-type headache (ETTH) is usually experienced as a normal headache or as a…
Synthesis of Tension-Type Headache Mechanisms Lars Bendtsen Jean Schoenen The mechanisms leading to tension-type headache have been investigated in a number of good studies over the recent years, and it…
Biochemistry of Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid in Tension-Type Headaches Flemming W. Bach Michel D. Ferrari The literature on biochemistry in tension-type headache (TTH) is characterized by the pursuit of a…
Psychological Mechanisms of Tension-Type Headaches Frank Andrasik David A. Wittrock Jan Passchier Tension-type headache (TTH) can be conceptualized within the framework of Gate Control Theory (25) and its recent extension,…
