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Hard-to-diagnose headache: practical tips for diagnosis and treatment.

The article by Hainer and Matheson in this issue of American Family Physician provides a thorough review of the presentation of adult headache, including recognition of cluster headache and workup of the emergent headache.1 The challenge for physicians is to be aware of the red flag symptoms that identify dangerous headaches, and be able to diagnose and treat a headache that has no focal neurol...

ACUPUNCTURE AND HEADACHE About headache

Headache is one of the most frequent reasons for medical consultations, in both general practice and neurology clinics.(Steiner 2007) Migraine has been covered in a separate Fact Sheet so this one will focus on tension-type headache. These occur in up to around 80% of the UK adult population(Steiner 2007), and are more prevalent in women (65% of cases in one survey).(Friedman 1954) Symptoms beg...

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Headache Rounds: Sudden Onset Chronic Daily Headache.

The following article is a Thomas Jefferson Headache Center headache rounds presentation. A 37-year-old woman, who reports a history of chronic sinusitis, developed sudden onset headache 1 1/2 years prior to her initial presentation at the Jefferson Headache Center. At that time she noted acute severe pressure-like pain bilaterally in her neck, which radiated to her forehead above her eyebrows....