OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and characteristics of, and factors associated with, chronic daily headache (CDH) in U.S. soldiers after a deployment-related concussion. METHODS A cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study was conducted with a cohort of 978 U.S. soldiers who screened positive for a deployment-related concussion upon returning from Iraq or Afghanistan. All soldiers under...

To cite: Lobo R, Kiely P, Watts M, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013009356 DESCRIPTION A 51-year-old male was referred by his general practitioner with a 9-month history of chronic daily headache, affecting the frontal and vertex areas of the head. T1-weighted MRI with gadolinium enhancement showed diffuse pachymeningeal enhancement (figu...

Vol. 2, No. 21 ■ November 2002 Opioids have long been used to treat intractable headache, although not every practitioner is willing to use these agents. Because of their addictive nature, opioids can be a medicolegal minefield, with the recent oxycodone controversy a current example. However, groups such as the American Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) have worked ...

Clark, Chelsea (2013) "The temporal relationship between daily stress and delayed modulation of chronic headache pain," Introduction Headache pain affects a large portion of the population and can be very disabling for those who experience it. About 4% of general practitioner visits in the medical field are made up of headache consultations, and one of the most common reasons for referral to a ...

Address all correspondence and request for reprints to: Tamer S. Issa Issa Physical Therapy Randolph Medical Center 4701 Randolph Rd Suite G1 Rockville, MD 20852 USA [email protected] Abstract: Chronic headaches are a significant health problem for patients and often a clinical enigma for the medical professionals who treat such patients. The purpose of this case report is to describe the phys...

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...

conclusions conservative management is successful in the vast majority of patients with spinal headache. interventional procedures are required in a small fraction of patients for symptomatic relief. case presentation intrathecal drug delivery system (idds) was initially used for the management of chronic malignant pain; it has since been used to manage pain from other nonmalignant conditions a...

EPIDEMIOLOGY AND DEMOGRAPHICS Spain has been a pioneer in the study of chronic daily headache (CDH) epidemiology. One of the main reasons for our interest in carrying out this kind of study is the way in which our health system is organized. In Spain > 95% of people only have public health insurance, and we all have one specific and stable family doctor in a Health Centre, a necessary intermedi...