In the US headache complaints account for 2.5 percent of all visits to emergency rooms, and recurrent headache are the biggest reason for all disability payments to American workers. Headaches are unique and so treat ment varies. Some people benefit from pain medications while others need only to practice relaxation techniques to control pain. This is a complete guide to managing tension, migraine, cluster and other types of recurrent headaches.

This addition to the health reference series, tailored to the layperson, addresses headache types (migraine, cluster, tension), causes and prevention, treatment, relationship to hormones and other co-existing conditions (this section is for women), and a final section on help and information which includes a glossary and list of headache clinics. Information is taken from publications of the FDA, the National Cancer Institute, American Council for Headache Education, the American Headache Society, and other organizations and institutes. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Thoroughly updated for its Second Edition, this handbook is a practical, easily accessible guide to the diagnosis and management of headache patients. Geared to both primary care physicians and neurologists, the book presents a systematic approach to diagnosis and offers expert recommendations for treating all types of headaches, including migraine, chronic daily headache, tension and cluster headaches, post-traumatic headaches, headache during pregnancy, headache in children, headaches with onset after age 50, and headaches caused by HEENT disorders. This edition includes new drug treatments such as topiramate, almotriptan, frovatriptan, eletriptan, botulinum toxin, and tizanidine. Also included are 42 case studies, patient education materials, alternative treatments, and a medicolegal section.

A three-step program that puts headache sufferers back in control of their lives. “A must read for all individuals with migraine!”—Ronald J. Tusa, M.D., PH.D., Professor of Neurology and Otolaryngology, Dizziness and Balance Center, Emory University Based on the breakthrough understanding that virtually all headaches are forms of migraine—because migraine is not a specific type of headache, but the built-in mechanism that causes headaches of all kinds, along with neck stiffness, sinus congestion, dizziness, and other problems—Dr. Buchholz’s Heal Your Headache offers a simple, transforming program. Step 1: Avoid the “Quick Fix.” Too often painkillers only make matters worse because of the crippling complication known as rebound. Step 2: Reduce your triggers. The crux of the program: a migraine diet that eliminate the foods that push headache sufferers over the top. Step 3: Raise your threshold. When diet and other lifestyle changes aren’t enough, preventive medication can help stay the course. That’s it. In three steps, you can turn your headache problems around. Includes answers to questions like: What is a migraine anyway? Why do I get more headaches than most people? Of all the potential dietary triggers, what are the major culprits? Will my headaches get better when I get older? Why does the weather give me headaches? How long will it take me to get over rebound when I stop taking my Excedrin? Are my children doomed to suffer from headaches? Why do I wake up every morning with a headache? This title was updated in November 2021 to reflect the latest medical advice.

Headache disorders are among the most common disorders of the nervous system. They are pandemic and, in many cases, they are recurrent and can accompany the patient for the whole life. These disorders impose a substantial burden on headache sufferers, on their families and on society: the individual impact is measured by the frequency and severity of attacks, while the societal burden is measured in terms of loss of activity at work and school as well as of costs for the health system. As a matter of facts, headaches are ranked in the top ten, and maybe the top five, causes of disability worldwide: they are therefore extraordinarily common. Population-based studies have mostly focused on migraine, which, even if it is the most frequently studied headache disorder, is not the most common . Other types of headache, such as the more prevalent TTH and sub-types of the more disabling chronic daily headache, have so far received less attention and need to be better investigated. This book will provide a useful tool to a wide medical population, who is required specific skills to diagnose and manage these frequent and often disabling disorders .Furthermore, it could also represents a compendium for medical students who are usually introduced to this topic through multidisciplinary university programmes.

Established worldwide as the one definitive, encyclopedic reference on headache, The Headaches is now in its thoroughly revised, updated Third Edition. The foremost international authorities examine the mechanisms of over 100 types of headache and provide evidence-based treatment recommendations, including extensive tables of controlled clinical trials. This edition presents the revised International Headache Society classification of headaches and explains how to use this new classification for accurate diagnosis. Many headache entities are discussed for the first time, such as chronic migraines; primary headache attributed to sexual activity; primary stabbing, cough, exertional, and thunderclap headaches; hypnic headaches; and new daily persistent headaches. A new section focuses on childhood headaches. Chapters that focus on headaches in elderly patients and patients with psychiatric or medical diseases are also included.

Prevention and treatment for all kinds of headaches.