The goal of this pilot study was to evaluate the effect of a trigger point-specific physiotherapy on headache frequency, intensity, and duration in children with episodic or chronic tension-type headache. Patients were recruited from the special headache outpatient clinic. A total of 9 girls (mean age 13.1 years; range, 5-15 years) with the diagnosis of tension-type headache participated in the...

Migraine and tension type headache are the two most common primary headaches. The purpose of this study was to detect differences in clinical characteristics and headache triggers and in a Greek cohort of 51 migraineurs and 12 patients with tension-type headache. (TTH) Migraine patients had a significantly lower age at headache onset and frequency, higher mean visual analogue scale (VAS) and gr...

Background: Headache and epilepsy are two common chronic and recurrent disorders. Headache may be a premonitory or postdromic symptom of epileptic seizures. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the prevalence of migraine and tension type headache in epileptic patients. Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional descriptive study, 100 patients with epilepsy who referred to the neurology clini...

BACKGROUND Cases of patients who developed cluster headache-like symptoms after different putative causes have been reported, indicating a direct relationship between brain lesion and this particular type of headache. Long term, delayed, neurological sequelae after lightning have also been described. CASE REPORT We describe the case of a woman who, at the age of 10, was struck by lightning. S...

Acute Headache accounts for about 3% of acute medical unit admissions and up to 8% of Emergency Room attendances. What follows is an approach to this problem based on the characteristics of the presenting headache type. For each type of acute headache there is a fairly well defined differential diagnosis. If you appreciate the clinical features that are associated with different headache disord...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to study the extent and type of health service utilisation, medication habits, and sickness absence due to the primary headaches. DESIGN This was a cross sectional epidemiological survey of headache disorders in a general population. Headache was diagnosed according to a structured interview and a neurological examination using the criteria of the International Hea...

A 15-year-old girl, who had had occasional tension-type headache, developed, rather suddenly and without any obvious reason, severe headache. She was admitted to hospital, where examination including CT and magnetic resonance scans did not show any abnormality. A visit to her own general practitioner 7 months later showed tenderness in the muscle of mastication. The patient was referred to a de...

OBJECTIVE: Morning headaches have been associated with sleep-related breathing disorders and Sleep Bruxism (SB). The present study aims to investigate the relationship between SB, primary severity of Obstructive Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) in patients presenting morning a prediagnosis OSAS.
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: included 480 who OSAS headache complaints, were diagnosed according International ...

BACKGROUND Due to its persistent and debilitating nature, refractory chronic migraine (RCM) can cause significant socioeconomic burden. This study retrospectively reviewed the efficacy and safety of botulinum toxin type A (BoNT-A) in the treatment of RCM. Predictors of treatment response were also investigated. METHODS We enrolled 94 patients in this study after reviewing the records of those...