Cervicogenic headache: pathophysiology, clinical picture, approaches to therapy

Cervicogenic headache: pathophysiology, diagnostic criteria and treatment.

Cervicogenic headache is a relatively common and still controversial form of headache arising from structures in the neck. Cervicogenic headache is a unilateral fixed headache characterised by pain that starts in the neck and spreads to the ipsilateral oculo-fronto-temporal area. The pathophysiology of cervicogenic headache probably depends on the effects of various local pain-producing or elic...

Effectiveness of Craniosacral Therapy in Cervicogenic Headache

Headache is common phenomenon experienced by everyone at some point in their lives. Hence it’s not surprising that the global estimate of headache sufferers is around 46% and prevalence of Cervicogenic headache is 2.5-4.1% among all headache types [1,2]. This prevalence might appear to be relatively low as compared to other headache types like migraine or tension type headache but the associate...

Tension-Type and Cervicogenic Headache: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

Cervicogenic headache: prevalence and response to local steroid therapy.

Cervicogenic headache (CEH) has been said to be common among patients with idiopathic headache, but no information exists as to its prevalence among those who have not suffered whiplash or head injury. This study was designed to answer this question and in addition to determine whether headache relief could be achieved by blockade of the occipital nerves (greater and lesser occipital--GON, LON)...

[Cervicogenic headache].

In 2004 cervicogenic headache was introduced into ICD-10 classification. The reasons of cervicogenic headache are changes within bones, soft tissue and nervous structures of cervical spine section. The pain may spread to the neck, occipital area of skull, area of jaw and eyeballs, and arms. There are many theories trying to explain spreading of the pain outside the area innervated by C1, C2 and...