Diagnosis and management of cervicogenic headache.

Cervicogenic headache: an assessment of the evidence on clinical diagnosis, invasive tests, and treatment.

Cervicogenic headache is characterised by pain referred to the head from the cervical spine. Although the International Headache Society recognises this type of headache as a distinct disorder, some clinicians remain sceptical. Laboratory and clinical studies have shown that pain from upper cervical joints and muscles can be referred to the head. Clinical diagnostic criteria have not proved val...

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...

Orthopaedic manual physical therapy including thrust manipulation and exercise in the management of a patient with cervicogenic headache: a case report.

It has been reported that in Western society as many as 16% of individuals experience cervicogenic headache, which can lead to significant amounts of pain and perceived disability. Cervicogenic headache is characterized by unilateral occipital-temporal pain that is increased by neck movement; it is accompanied by cervical hypomobility, postural changes, and/or increased cervical muscle tone. Th...

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

Treatment of Cervicogenic Headache: New Insights on the Treatment of Pain in the Neck.

Diagnosis and treatment of cervicogenic headache are both clinically challenging; as a result, this disorder remains one of the most controversial in headache medicine. Between 50% and 75% of patients with whiplash injury may have headache related to a disorder of the neck, whereas in the general population, the prevalence of cervicogenic headache has been estimated to be 4.1%. Given that the p...

Cervicogenic headache arising from hidden metastasis to cervical lymph node adjacent to the superficial cervical plexus -A case report-

The differential diagnosis of headache is often difficult because the symptom of headache is overlapping. Superficial cervical plexus block is useful in diagnosis and treatment of headache. Headache arising from the neck and radiating to the frontotemporal regions and possibly to the supraorbital region has been defined as cervicogenic headache. A positive response to anesthetic blocks is one o...