A boy aged five years presented with a new recurrent headache over the past month, associated nausea and occasional vomiting, as well photophobia, phonophobia pallor. The episodes lasted up to six hours at time occurred 3–4 times per week. They were usually preceded by approximately 30 minutes of irritable dysregulated behaviour. any day. patient had only woken once headache. There was no abdom...

OBJECTIVE To present the characteristics of four cases of migraine, who were included as participants in a prospective trial on chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy for migraine. METHOD Participants in a migraine research trial, were reviewed for the symptoms or clinical features and their response to manual therapy. RESULTS The four selected cases of migraine responded dramatically to ...

Migraine and tension type headache are the two most common primary headaches. The purpose of this study was to detect differences in clinical characteristics and headache triggers and in a Greek cohort of 51 migraineurs and 12 patients with tension-type headache. (TTH) Migraine patients had a significantly lower age at headache onset and frequency, higher mean visual analogue scale (VAS) and gr...

Atypical features of hemicrania continua (HC), including both visual aura and side shifting, have been reported previously. However, auras and variable unilaterality have never been reported together in HC. We report two patients with side-shifting HC with aura. These patients' symptoms are unilateral headaches, visual aura, autonomic features, throbbing pain, nausea and photo/phonophobia. One ...

We report the case of a 14-year-old girl who developed postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) with chronic fatigue 2 months following Gardasil vaccination. The patient suffered from persistent headaches, dizziness, recurrent syncope, poor motor coordination, weakness, fatigue, myalgias, numbness, tachycardia, dyspnea, visual disturbances, phonophobia, cognitive impairment, insomnia, g...

Migraine is a periodic disorder consisting of paroxysmal unilateral headache, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia and/or phonophobia. A working definition of migraine is benign recurring headache and/or neurological dysfunction usually attended by pain-free interludes and often provoked by stereotyped stimuli. Migraine is more common in females, with a hereditary predisposition towards...

Migraine is a largely inherited disorder of the brain characterized by a complex, but stereotypical, dysfunction of sensory processing. Often the most obvious clinical symptom is head pain, but non-headache symptoms such as photophobia, phonophobia and nausea are clearly part of the typical presentation. This review discusses the current pathophysiological concepts of migraine and migraine aura...

BACKGROUND Although cervical trigger point intramuscular injections are commonly used to relieve localized neck pain, regional head pain relief from lower cervical paravertebral injections has not been reported previously. PURPOSE To evaluate the safety and efficacy of such injections in a selected group of patients with intractable head or face pain. METHODS In a series of patients with ch...

66 CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS AND EPIDEMIOLOGY Migraine headache is a chronic, debilitating disorder characterized by severe head pain that is usually unilateral and throbbing in nature (1). If left untreated, a migraine can persist for up to 72 hours (2). It is frequently associated with nausea (87%) and/or vomiting (56%), and other symptoms such as photophobia and phonophobia are also quite comm...

Migraine. Since the 2002 TEC Assessment, 1 new study meeting selection criteria has appeared. Published in 2004 (n=60), this trial randomized patients to saline placebo, low-dose BTX-A, or high-dose BTX-A. No significant differences were reported at 3 months for any of 7 pain-related outcomes. The low dose of BTX-A had a lower rate of accompanying symptoms (photophobia, phonophobia, nausea and ...