AIM To determine the differences in outcome in a group of children with idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) who do not present with headaches. METHODS Differences in epidemiological and aetiological factors, clinical presentation, and visual outcome were investigated in children with a diagnosis of IIH presenting with and without headaches to the Paediatric Neurology and Paediatric Oph...

UNLABELLED Disturbances in family functioning have been identified in youth with chronic pain and are associated with worse child physical and psychological functioning. Assessment measures of family functioning used in research and clinical settings vary. This systematic review summarizes studies investigating relationships among family functioning, pain, and pain-related disability in youth w...

OBJECTIVES To investigate clinical features of a pediatric population presenting with headache to a pediatric emergency department (ED) and to identify headache characteristics which are more likely associated with serious, life-threatening conditions in distinction from headaches due to more benign processes. BACKGROUND Although headache is a common problem in children visiting a pediatric E...

BACKGROUND This is an update of the original Cochrane review first published in Issue 1, 2003, and previously updated in 2009 and 2012. Chronic pain affects many children, who report severe pain, disability, and distressed mood. Psychological therapies are emerging as effective interventions to treat children with chronic or recurrent pain. This update focuses specifically on psychological ther...

INTRODUCTION The aim was to describe the findings on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in children with headache. POPULATION AND METHODS Retrospective review of the medical records of patients who were admitted to our pediatric outpatient neurology clinics with the complaint of headache between January 2013 and December 2014. RESULTS A total of 478 patients (273 female, 205 male) were admitt...

introduction: post dural puncture headache is still a common complication among young women undergone cesarean section, although use of small size spinal needles reduced its prevalence. several methods have been suggested for prevention and treatment of this side effect; such as complete bed rest, hydration, non-opioid analgesics, caffeine, codeine, which none of them proved to be totally effec...

cerebral stroke is a rare disease in children. moyamoya (mm) is one of the infrequent cerebrovascular diseases with unknown etiology. we report an 8 year-old-boy with chief complain of sudden onset bilateral parietal lobe headache. he mentioned that his headache was first started about three weeks ago and was associated with visual disturbance. his mother declared that the boy developed gait pr...

This study asked what incites the development of a new daily persistent headache in children. A total of 175 children with chronic daily headache were prospectively identified and observed by the author. Of these patients, 40 (23%) with a new daily persistent headache were identified. These patients had no significant prior headache history. Seventeen patients (43%) had the onset of their sympt...

OBJECTIVE Pediatric headache is highly widespread and is associated with distress and reduced quality of life. Pharmacological treatment of chronic headache in children has been only partially effective and, as in medication-overuse headache, can sometimes be counterproductive. Therefore, there is a substantial need to develop other effective methods of treatment. Here we present the rationale,...

A comparative study with non experimental design was conducted. total of 126 participants between 3 and 16-years-old were recruited. Subjects divided into two groups: Children headaches (who had suffered it in the last three months) children without a headache. Anthropometric data, presence number latent or active myofascial trigger points, pressure pain threshold craniocervical muscles compare...