Primary headaches in children

The "other" primary headaches in children and adolescents.

Headache represents one of the most common reasons why children and adolescents are referred to pediatric neurology practices where the most common headache syndromes diagnosed are migraine and its variants, and chronic daily headache. The bulk of recent literature regarding headache in children has focused on these two clinical entities even though large epidemiologic studies have demonstrated...

Neuromodulation in Primary Headaches

Neuroimaging in Migraine Metric-Based Pain Care Contemporary Physical Therapy Primary headaches represent a major burden, not only to patients but also to national health care systems in terms of socioeconomic consequences. Migraine incurs yearly costs of up to US$20 billion in the United States and up to US$27 billion in Europe. Patients with chronic primary headache have even greater impairme...

Neurobiology in primary headaches.

Primary headaches such as migraine and cluster headache are neurovascular disorders. Migraine is a painful, incapacitating disease that affects a large portion of the adult population with a substantial economic burden on society. The disorder is characterised by recurrent unilateral headaches, usually accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and/or phonophobia. A number of hypothesis have ...

Headaches in children.

[Headaches in children].