CONTEXT Episodic tension-type headache is common and is often treated using manual therapies. Few data exist for the efficacy of these interventions. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of spinal manipulation therapy on adults with episodic tension-type headache. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial lasting 19 weeks. SETTING Outpatient facility of a National Health Service-funded chiropracti...

BACKGROUND Use of electronic media, i.e. mobile phones, computers, television, game consoles or listening to music, is very common, especially amongst adolescents. There is currently a debate about whether frequent use of these media might have adverse effects on health, especially on headaches, which are among the most-reported health complaints in adolescents. The aim of the present study was...

AIM The aim of this study was to describe and evaluate the effect of an individually tailored behavioral medicine treatment in physical therapy, based on a functional behavioral analysis (FBA), for tension-type headache (TTH). PATIENTS AND METHODS Two case studies with A1-A2-B-A3 design of two patients with TTH was conducted. Outcome variables were headache frequency, headache index (mean int...

Background and Objective. Primary headaches is a major medical concern in certain Arabic countries, for example Oman, Jordan, and Qatar. This study was aimed at increasing understanding of the prevalence of headache in Arabic countries and identifying common medications used for treatment because of the lack of research done in this field in Yemen. Methods. This is a cross-sectional observation...

A group of 129 subjects (67 men and 62 women) experiencing sports headache was established using a questionnaire. A wide range of information was gathered, focusing on the mode of onset, time course, characteristic features and associated symptoms of sports-related headache. Criteria for the varieties of sports headaches were established using head trauma and then migraine to divide subgroups o...

There is a definite relationship between the vascular type of benign sexual headache and benign exertional headache. Forty five patients with benign vascular sexual headache were reviewed. Twenty seven (60%) experienced benign vascular sexual headache alone and eighteen (40%) had experienced both benign vascular sexual headache and benign exertional headache on at least one occasion. The mean a...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether drawings can aid in the differential diagnosis of headaches in children. METHODS Before taking any history, 226 children who were seen consecutively for the evaluation of headache were asked to draw a picture to show how their headache felt. The pictures were then scored as migraine or nonmigraine by pediatric neurologists who were blinded to the clinical histor...

BACKGROUND Unlike the prevalence, the incidence of headache disorders has attracted only little attention in epidemiological research. Different definitions of the 'population at risk' among the few published migraine and tension-type headache incidence studies limit their comparability and warrant further research. Therefore, we analysed data from the German Migraine and Headache Society (DMKG...

BACKGROUND Primary headaches are underdiagnosed and undertreated, with a significant impact on social activities and work. AIM To determine the last-year prevalence and health care utilization pattern of primary headaches at a tertiary centre. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out amongst staff of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. 402 staff members we...

This headache type has had many different names in the past including ciliary neuralgia, erythroprosopalgia of Bing, hemicrania periodic neuralgiforms, histaminic cephalalgia, Horton’s headache, migrainous neuralgia, Sluder’s neuralgia, and sphenopalatine neuralgia. Kunkle and colleagues observed the tendency of the headaches to cluster in time and proposed the term, “cluster headache,” in 1952.