introduction headache is a common complaint in children, and it has a significant effect on their daily living activities. having a definite diagnosis for the cause of the headache is very important for its appropriate management. case presentation we report a 12-year-old boy complaining of chronic headache, with a positive family history of migraine. the only abnormal finding in his general an...

BACKGROUND Cluster headache is a primary headache by definition not caused by any known underlying structural pathology. However, symptomatic cases have been described, e.g. tumours, particularly pituitary adenomas, malformations, and infections/inflammations. The evaluation of cluster headache is an issue unresolved. CASE DESCRIPTION We present a case of a 43-year-old patient who presented w...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to examine the occurrence of childhood headache at the start of school. STUDY DESIGN An unselected population-based population-based questionnaire study on the occurrence of headache was conducted in 1433 children between the ages of 6 and 7 years old (ranging from 6 years 8 months to 7 years 8 months) who started school in 1992. The first questionnaire...

STEP 2 Recognize Migraine as a Process.—While headache and migraine are often considered synonymous, they are not. Migraine is always more than headache. Learning the non-headache symptoms associated with your migraine is essential to early recognition of an attack. The headache-associated symptoms of a migraine attack are divided into 3 components: (1) symptoms occurring before the headache be...

in this article, we present the case of a 12-year-old female child who complained of bilateral temporal and frontal headache for 2 to 3 months with nausea and vomiting. physical examination revealed right-sided sixth cranial nerve palsy and papilledema in ophthalmoscopy. to find the cause of increased intracranial pressure, the patient underwent brain imaging and brain mri showed no abnormality...

results our study comprised 739 subjects (367 athletes and 372 non-athletes). among athletic university students, 152 (41.2%) participants complained of headache. such a complaint was present in 217 (58.3%) non-athletic university students. this lower prevalence of headache in athletes was statistically significant (p value < 0.001). among ten different sports fields, the prevalence of headache...

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background: migraine is defined as a chronic disabling condition which influences all physical, mental, and social dimensions of quality of life. some 12-15% of the world population suffers from migraine. the disease is more common among women. the onset, frequency, duration, and severity of migraine attacks may be affected by other predisposing factors including nutrition. therefore, determini...

background: headache is the most common complication caused by spinal anesthesia. systematic educational programs about conservative treatments could be effective in the reduction of headache after spinal anesthesiz. aim: this study aimed to evaluate the effects of training programs on the headache of patients after spinal anesthesia. method: this empirical study was conducted on 120 patients w...

how to cite this article: talebian a, soltani b, haji rezaei m. causes and associated factors of headaches among 5 to 15-year-old children referred to a neurology clinic in kashan, iran. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):71-75. abstract objective headaches are common neurologic problems for children and adolescents. they are divided into two types: primary and secondary. primary headaches i...