Caffeine is used daily by 85% of United States adults and caffeine withdrawal a major cause perioperative headache. Studies have shown that supplementation in chronic caffeinators reduces the incidence This narrative review discusses implications outlines benefits strategies period. It time to “wake up smell coffee” on integration into established enhanced recovery after surgery protocols as me...

objective: patients with chronic daily headache (cdh) suffer from several significant psychiatric comorbidities and have unhealthy lifestyle. we aimed at studying psychiatric comorbidities, environmental triggers, lifestyle factors, and intensity of cdh in patients referred by the department of neurology from 2011 to 2014. method: through medical and psychiatric interviews and using 0 to 10 vis...

UNLABELLED There are controversial associations between headaches and psychological symptoms. OBJECTIVE To design a profile of neuroticism, a term that groups variables related to negative personality traits, in patients with chronic daily headache (CDH) when compared to episodic migraine (EM) patients, applying the Factorial Scale of Emotional Adjustment/Neuroticism (NFS). METHOD One hundr...

the purported mechanism underlying the development and progression of cervicogenic headache (ceh) is the convergence of sensory inputs at the trigeminocervical nucleus. this mechanism explains the radiation of pain from the neck or the occipitonuchal area and its spread to the oculo-fronto-temporal region; it also explains the recurrent headaches caused by improper neck postures or external pre...

Patients with chronic daily headache and overuse of analgesics, triptans, or other acute headache compounds, are considered to suffer from medication-overuse headache (MOH). This implies that medication overuse is the cause of headache chronification. It remains a key question why only two-thirds of patients with chronic migraine-like headache and overuse of pain medication improve after detoxi...

OBJECTIVES To empirically evaluate a minimal therapist contact CD-ROM pain management program for recurrent pediatric headache developed as part of this study. METHODS Participants were 37 children aged 7-12 attending a pediatric neurology clinic for evaluation of recurrent headache. Children who were randomly assigned to the treatment group worked through the CD-ROM program on home computers...