Biofeedback is a training method, which connects physiological and psychological processes in a person for the purposes of improving his/her physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. In biofeedback treatment, an active role of the patient is stressed for him/her to be able to actively control the physiological and emotional processes. The aim of biofeedback is to improve the conscious c...

BACKGROUND Headaches affect most children and rank third among illness-related causes of school absenteeism. Although the short-term outcome for most children appears favorable, few studies have reported long-term outcome. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the long-term prognosis of childhood headaches 20 years after initial diagnosis in a cohort of Atlantic Canadian children who had headaches diagnosed ...

Spinal anesthesia is a frequently performed procedure in medical emergencies and anesthesia. Tension headache after lumbar puncture is a common occurrence (32%) and carries a considerable morbidity, with symptoms lasting for several days, at times severe enough to immobilize. The aim of this study is to assess the effect of pre and post nursing intervention on the occurrence of tension headache...

The pathogenesis of tension-type headache (TTH) is poorly understood. TTH is mostly associated with the sympathetic nervous system. Reports considering autonomic nervous system functioning with regard to TTH are limited. Autonomic nervous system disorders could however play a role in the etiopathology of TTH. Compared with sympathetic nervous system functioning, techniques for evaluating parasy...

part of the study " Autonomic activation and pain " , investigating responses to low-grade stress in patients with migraine, tension-type headache, fibromyalgia and chronic shoulder/neck pains. (" Samarbeidsorganet "). I wish to express my sincere gratitude to a number of people who I have had the pleasure to work with over the last years: first of all I wish to thank my supervisors Trond Sand ...

Chronic daily headache (CDH) refers to a group of non-paroxysmal daily or near-daily headaches with peculiar characteristics that are highly prevalent in populations of neurological clinics and not uncommon among non-patient populations. Most of the patients with CDH had, as primary diagnosis, episodic migraine, which, with the time, presented a progressive frequency, pattern modification and l...

BACKGROUND Chronic headache is a prevalent condition with substantial socioeconomic impact. Complementary or alternative therapies are increasingly being used by patients to treat headache pain, and spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is among the most common of these. OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy/effectiveness of SMT for chronic headache through a systematic review of randomized clinical t...

BACKGROUND Headache can be associated with epilepsy as a pre-ictal, ictal, or post-ictal phenomenon; however, studies of patients with headache as an epileptic aura are scarce. We performed the present study to investigate the incidence and characteristics of headache as an epileptic aura, via confirmation of electroencephalography (EEG) changes by video-EEG monitoring. METHODS Data of aura a...

OBJECTIVE Headache affects the quality of life for many people throughout the world. Tension headache is among the commonest forms. Acupuncture is the most widely practised non-medicinal treatment for headaches. The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of laser acupuncture in this type of headache. METHODS Fifty patients with chronic tension-type headache were randomly allocated t...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE New-onset headache in elderly patients is generally suggestive of a high probability of secondary headache, and the subtypes of primary headache diagnoses are still unclear in the elderly. This study investigated the characteristics of headache with an older age at onset (≥65 years) and compared the characteristics between younger and older age groups. METHODS We prospe...