Preadolescent children frequently report headache symptoms. Long-term, recurrent headache problems occur much less frequently and are often classified as migraine. This report describes an 8 1/2-year-old male who, after limited relief through traditional therapy over a 4-year period, was helped significantly with an occlusal splint.

objective headaches are common during childhood. in addition, sleep disorders are common problems in children, too. although it is commonly thought that headache and sleep problems are related, there is not enough evidence to confirm this relationship. finding evident relations between these problems would help practitioners a lot to make earlier diagnosis and plan treatment modalities for both...

Objective: The Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology and the Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society develop practice parameters as strategies for patient management based on analysis of evidence. For this parameter, the authors reviewed available evidence on the evaluation of the child with recurrent headaches and made recommendations based on this evide...

If possible, precipitating factors should be identified. As an example, the use of caffeine may exacerbate migraine and should be eliminated. Sleep disturbances, such as snoring or frequent awakenings, may precipitate headache. Rarely, a temporal relationship is established between diet and headache; in these cases, an elimination diet may be helpful. Dehydration and missing meals are also comm...

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is widely used by both physicians and patients with primary headache syndromes. Despite a considerable number of articles addressing CAM in primary headache syndromes, the overall evidence for CAM is still poor. The aim of this review was to give an overview of the current evidence of the main alternative therapies used in the treatment of primary he...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to prospectively evaluate the International Classification of Headache Disorders I (ICHD-I) diagnostic criteria for migraine in children and adolescents. METHODS 150 pain diaries were analyzed during an initial consultation. The duration of migraine headache attacks were divided into 2 groups: Group I, for attacks lasting > 2 hours, and Group II, for ...