Imaging chronic daily headache.

abstract：:"Do I have a tumor?" This is a question in every person's mind when first confronted with a new-onset headache, a question that causes considerable anxiety among patients, leading them to seek medical evaluation. This publication reviews the current literature with respect to the epidemiology, pathophysiology presenta...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Kahn K,Finkel A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain can be a significant problem for the patient with advanced cancer, particularly if bone metastases are present. Radiation therapy is efficacious and has been a mainstay in the treatment of pain from bone metastases. In the past decade, radiosurgery has developed into a successful adjunct treatment for these patie...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Haley M,Gerszten PC

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW:The goals of this review are to evaluate recent studies regarding comorbidity between migraine and different metabolic and endocrine disorders and to discuss the role of insulin resistance as a common pathogenetic mechanism of these diseases. RECENT FINDINGS:Recently, several studies showed that ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Rainero I,Govone F,Gai A,Vacca A,Rubino E

更新日期：2018-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Paroxysmal hemicrania (PH) is an underreported and underdiagnosed primary headache disorder. It usually begins in the third or fourth decade of life. The recent observations indicate that it is equally prevalent in both males and females. PH is characterized by severe, strictly unilateral head pain attacks that occur ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Prakash S,Patell R

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is either a symptom or a syndrome depending on criteria for diagnosis. CRF is present in 20% to 30% of long-term cancer survivors and 80% to 90% during treatment and at the end of life. Assessment requires determining the presence, severity, and interference with daily activities. Differen...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Davis MP,Khoshknabi D,Yue GH

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addiction to opioid analgesics is an important and yet underinvestigated clinical issue, which has substantial implications in opioid therapy for chronic pain management. Problematic opioid use, including compulsive opioid seeking and addiction, arises in some fraction of opioid-treated chronic pain patients. The conn...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Carinci AJ,Mao J

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Athletic neurosurgical emergencies are injuries that can lead to mortality or significant morbidity and require immediate recognition and treatment. This review article discusses the epidemiology of sports-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) with an attempt to quantify the incidence of neurosurgical ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Ban VS,Botros JA,Madden CJ,Batjer HH

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 20 million US women suffer with migraine, two thirds of whom experience menstrually related migraine. Estrogen plays an important role in triggering migraine, and given the numerous hormonal fluctuations throughout a woman's lifetime, there are many opportunities for a hormonal impact. Accurate diagnosis is ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Lay CL,Broner SW

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sexual hormones influence complex brain function and pain perception. Many psychophysical studies attempted to establish pain perception changes across menstrual cycle in animal models and healthy women or those with chronic pain. General results are quite uncertain in regard to consistent menstrual-related fluctuatio...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： de Tommaso M

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholic drinks are a migraine trigger in about one third of patients with migraine in retrospective studies on trigger factors. Many population studies show that patients with migraine consume alcohol in a smaller percentage than the general population. Moreover, research has shown a decreased prevalence of headache...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Panconesi A,Bartolozzi ML,Guidi L

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is caused by myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) located within taut bands of skeletal muscle fibers. Treating the underlying etiologic lesion responsible for MTrP activation is the most important strategy in MPS therapy. If the underlying pathology is not given the appropriate treatment, ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Hong CZ

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weight gain is a common side effect of drugs used for headache prevention. Weight gain can adversely affect patient health, exacerbate comorbid metabolic disorders, and encourage noncompliance. Additionally, obesity may promote the chronification of episodic migraine. Few studies have looked specifically at the effect...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Young WB

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "migrant variant" is not used in the headache classification of the International Headache Society (IHS), but it includes those forms of migraine that are not typical of migraine with or without aura. Headaches that do not quite fulfill all of the IHS criteria are termed "migrainous disorder." Migraine associ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Solomon S

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about specific changes of cognitive processing in cluster headache. Studies on event-related potentials (ERP) suggest that stimulus evaluation is impaired in chronic cluster headache and in episodic cluster headache during the cluster period, but not in the interval between two periods. Patients with c...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Evers S

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibromyalgia syndrome, a chronic condition typically characterized by widespread pain, nonrestorative sleep, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and other somatic symptoms, negatively impacts physical and emotional function and reduces quality of life. Exercise is commonly recommended in the management of people with fibr...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Busch AJ,Webber SC,Brachaniec M,Bidonde J,Bello-Haas VD,Danyliw AD,Overend TJ,Richards RS,Sawant A,Schachter CL

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) remains a challenging condition to diagnose and treat. There are few large-scale, randomized trials of pharmacologic agents, and most published studies are small, uncontrolled, or presented only in abstract form at meetings. The most commonly used agents, such as anticonvulsants, ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Mackey S,Feinberg S

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperprolactinemia is a condition characterised by an increase of prolactin blood levels (more than 100-200 ng/ml). It is the most common endocrine disorder of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis. The clinical characteristics of the headache-hyperprolactinemia-hypophyseal-adenoma association are discussed, the various dia...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Bussone G,Usai S,Moschiano F

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family history of migraine is very frequently noted when evaluating a child for recurrent headaches. This implies an inherited or genetic basis as a component to the underlying pathophysiology. A variety of techniques have begun to elucidate this contribution, including historical observation, population-based studi...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Hershey AD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on migraine triggers is reviewed, including the most common triggers, interactions between triggers, the research evidence related to the capacity of self-reported triggers to precipitate headaches, and the neurobiologic pathways by which triggers induce migraine attacks. An argument is developed agains...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Martin PR

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Involvement by psychiatrists in the care of patients who are terminally ill has been limited historically; however, psychiatrists increasingly are participating in the care of these people who are facing the most challenging times of their lives. Pain management is considered to be an area of subspecialization for psy...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Cole BE

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of menstruating women experience uncomfortable symptoms during the premenstrual phase of their menstrual cycles. Although many women do not require specific treatment of their symptoms, approximately 20% to 50% report moderate to severe premenstrual symptoms and about 5% meet the diagnostic criteria ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Shulman LP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurones in the trigeminocervical complex are the major relay neurones for nociceptive afferent input from the meninges and cervical structures; therefore, they are the neural substrates of head pain. This review highlights the importance of two basic mechanisms in headache physiology: convergence of nociceptive affer...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Bartsch T,Goadsby PJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:To provide an update on recent developments in the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of CSF-venous fistula (CVF). RECENT FINDING:CVF is a recently recognized cause of spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH), an important secondary headache, in which an aberrant connection is formed between t...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Roytman M,Salama G,Robbins MS,Chazen JL

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Headache, a common and disabling symptom in Behçet's syndrome, may be associated with a variety of neurologic syndromes and ocular inflammation, or may present as an isolated feature. Our objective is to describe the various neurologic and ocular syndromes of Behçet's syndrome of which headache is a symptom, and to re...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Vishwanath V,Wong E,Crystal SC,Robbins MS,Filopoulos M,Lipton RB,Yazici Y,Kister I

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characteristic symptoms of fibromyalgia syndrome include widespread pain, fatigue, sleep abnormalities, and distress. Patients with fibromyalgia show psychophysical evidence of mechanical, thermal, and electrical hyperalgesia. Peripheral and central abnormalities of nociception have been described in fibromyalgia. Imp...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Staud R,Smitherman ML

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lumbar spine forms the foundation and infrastructure of an organic skyscraper equipped with the physiologic capacity to act as a crane for lifting and a crankshaft for walking. Subjected to aging like other "human machinery," the lumbar spine adapts to the wear and tear of gravity and biomechanical loading through...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Wheeler AH,Murrey DB

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During gestation, cells of the brain and gut develop almost simultaneously into the central nervous system (CNS) and enteric nervous system (ENS), respectively. They remain connected via the vagal nerve lifelong. While it is well known that the brain sends signal to the gut, communication is in fact bidirectional. Jus...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Hindiyeh N,Aurora SK

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain remains a serious medical problem because of patient morbidity and the absence of effective therapeutic interventions. Recent evidence suggests that this type of pain may be particularly difficult to manage because underlying mechanisms are influenced by a variety of factors, including type of injury,...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Harriott AM,Gold MS

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whiplash injuries are very common and usually are associated with rear-end collisions. However, a whiplash injury can be caused by any event that results in hyperextension and flexion of the cervical spine. These injuries are of serious concern to all consumers due to escalating cost of diagnosis, treatment, insurance...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Malanga G,Peter J

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant improvement of neuropathic pain has been achieved with studies that have demonstrated efficacy of newer anticonvulsants in relieving this type of pain, by having a neuromodulatory effect on the hyperexcitable damaged nervous system. Two drugs from this class, gabapentin and lamotrigine, have been submitted...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Backonja M

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00