common/headache

In general practice, headache presents as a problem with many causes and is seen from a different perspective than in specialist practice. Common headaches include tension, cervical dysfunction and 'mixed' headache. Consideration of the diurnal patterns in the history is a key to diagnosis. Causes

The authors have a personal philosophy that it is worthwhile for a physician on occasion to be the patient. When this particular physician consults another physician for a medical problem, he is seeking treatment to eradicate that particular problem. It is difficult to afford the appropriate therapy

Acute headaches in a child evoke anxiety in parents, of a possible catastrophic underlying intracranial pathology. Headaches constitute up to 2 to 6% of all emergency room visit. The prevalence of migraine is increasing. The majority of children have migraine without aura, and about one fifth have

Although clinically distinguishable, migraine and cluster headache share prominent features such as unilateral pain, common pharmacological triggers such glyceryl trinitrate, histamine, calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and response to triptans and neuromodulation. Recent data also suggest

Questionnaires completed by 327 preclinical medical and dental students showed that 97.9% had experienced headaches, most frequently attributed to insufficient sleep (38.8%), mental stress (38.8%), alcohol (38.5%), excess heat (36.7%), reading (31.5%), excess noise (29.9%) or light (27.7%), and