Medication-Overuse Headache (Review of Literature and Recommendations for Practice)

Medication-overuse headache (MOH) is a highly prevalent secondary headache, developing in patients with frequent and chronic cephalalgias due to excessive use of “acute” medications for significantly affecting patients’ quality life. Treatment MOH demands high compliance physician-patient, the result satisfactory not all cases. For this reason, prophylaxis overuse symptomatic headaches important. The review presents contemporary data on MOH, its treatment prophylaxis.