Anatomy and Pathology of Cluster Headaches
Anatomy and Pathology of Cluster Headaches Jan Erik Hardebo Norihiro Suzuki The location of maximal pain in cluster headache (CH) is strikingly similar in almost every sufferer: it is felt…
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Genetics of Cluster Headaches
Genetics of Cluster Headaches Michael Bjørn Russell Richard C. Trembath Up until 10 years ago little evidence to support a genetic component to the etiology of cluster headache had been…
Cluster Headaches: Introduction and Epidemiology
Cluster Headaches: Introduction and Epidemiology Peter J. Goadsby Peer Tfelt-Hansen CLASSIFICATION AND SHORT DESCRIPTION Cluster headache (CH) falls into group 3 of the International Headache Society (IHS) classification, the trigeminal…
Prophylactic Pharmacotherapy of Tension-Type Headache
Prophylactic Pharmacotherapy of Tension-Type Headache Lars Bendtsen Ninan T. Mathew Prophylactic pharmacotherapy should be considered in patients with chronic tension-type headache (CTTH). Quality of life is substantially reduced in these…
Acute Pharmacotherapy of Tension-Type Headaches
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
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
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
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
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
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…
