Tension-type headache in the elderly.

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：:Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a widely accepted tool to investigate somatosensory changes in pain patients. Many different protocols have been developed in clinical pain research within recent years. In this review, we provide an overview of QST and tested neuroanatomical pathways, including peripheral and cen...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Pfau DB,Geber C,Birklein F,Treede RD

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurostimulation techniques for the treatment of primary headache syndromes, particularly for chronic cluster headache (CCH), have received much interest in the recent years. Occipital nerve stimulation (ONS) has yielded favourable clinical results, and is becoming a routine treatment for refractory chronic cluster he...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Wolter T,Kaube H

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:New imaging technology allows us to study neurologic disorders that have had no previous structural basis. There have been recent reports on the involvement of nociceptive pathways in daily headache. A systematic review was performed using key words "chronic daily headache" and "imaging." This paper reviews the litera...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Aurora SK

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:Individually, childhood epilepsy and migraine are two of the most common conditions seen in pediatric neurology. What complicates matters is that there can be marked similarities between migraine and epilepsy as well as a variety of underlying conditions that predispose children to both seizures and headache. Thus, se...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Oakley CB,Kossoff EH

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a major source of physical and psychiatric morbidity and mortality, and the current overreliance on opioid analgesics has contributed to a burgeoning epidemic in the USA. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an empirically supported treatment for CLBP, but little infor...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Mariano TY,Urman RD,Hutchison CA,Jamison RN,Edwards RR

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Pain is a difficult outcome to measure due to its multifaceted and subjective nature. The need for selecting proper outcome measures is high because of the increasing demand for scientifically valid demonstrations of treatment efficacy. This article discusses some basic topics in the measurement of pain outcomes and a...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Younger J,McCue R,Mackey S

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the comorbidity of migraine has been extensively studied, the relationships between cluster headache and psychiatric disease have not been well-addressed. In this review the available literature concerning cluster headache and depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, aggression, suicide, and their implications ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Robbins MS

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of analgesic and anti-inflammatory injections in athletics has a long and sometimes controversial history. They have been and will continue to be utilized to decrease inflammation and pain, improve healing time, and ultimately decrease the amount of time missed from sports competition. Several authors have eva...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Dietzel DP,Hedlund EC

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Chronic venous disease (CVD), although affecting up to 40% of the US population, is often underdiagnosed by healthcare professionals due to an incomplete understanding of the presenting symptoms. CVD is a common cause of lower extremity pain and discomfort, including aching, cramping, tingling, burnin...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Novak CJ,Khimani N,Kaye AD,Jason Yong R,Urman RD

更新日期：2019-03-04 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：:Nitric oxide (NO) is an important molecule in headache pathophysiology. NO regulates vascular tone and acts as a potent vasodilator, and thus participates in regulating blood flow. NO is also considered to play a role in processing sensory information and pain sensitization. In this article, we review the role of NO i...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Steinberg A,Nilsson Remahl AI

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical understanding and management of myofascial pain is overlooked frequently when dealing with pain. Myofascial pain is defined as pain or autonomic phenomena referred from active trigger points, with associated dysfunction. The trigger point is a focus of hyperirritability in the muscle that, when compressed, is...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Graff-Radford SB

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:Migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) are highly prevalent primary headaches that remain underdiagnosed and undertreated in clinical practice. The similarities and differences between migraine and TTH may impose diagnostic challenges as well as management difficulties. In addition, the possibility of migraine chron...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Peres MF,Gonçalves AL,Krymchantowski A

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Headache and sleep disturbance are common health complaints. Both complaints often co-exist in the same patient, leading some to suspect a causal relationship or common underlying pathology. However, the empirical literature in this area is limited. Some attempts have been made to explore the relationship between head...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Rains JC,Penzien DB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:CGRP is a key neuropeptide in migraine pathophysiology. The blockade of the CGRP pathway at the side of the CGRP receptor of the CGRP peptide leads to the interruption of trigeminal nerve system-mediated headache syndromes such as migraine. Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting the CGRP pathway have ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Israel H,Neeb L,Reuter U

更新日期：2018-04-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical stimulation has been used since ancient times to treat painful conditions. Electrotherapy for pain was largely consigned to the realm of quackery until the introduction of the Gate Control Theory by Melzack and Wall in 1965 provided a rationale for direct stimulation of peripheral nerves. Since that time, p...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Henderson JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer pain is a well-documented and prevalent healthcare problem, with current treatment strategies often failing to achieve acceptable efficacy. One of the major difficulties in treating cancer pain owes to the complex interplay between the cancer microenvironment, cancer therapy, and the body's own responses to the...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Nashed MG,Balenko MD,Singh G

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Cervicogenic headache is a chronic, hemicranial pain syndrome in which the source of pain is located in the cervical spine or soft tissues of the neck but the sensation of pain is referred to the head. The trigeminocervical nucleus is a region of the upper cervical spinal cord where sensory nerve fibers in the descend...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Biondi DM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care professionals caring for neonates (birth to 28 days of life) and infants up to 1 year of age have a professional and ethical responsibility to provide safe and effective pain management during painful procedures. Despite 14 years of research reports highlighting that sick infants are exposed to large numbe...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Harrison D,Yamada J,Stevens B

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Cervicogenic headache (CHA) is a secondary headache which has a source in the upper cervical spine. Many traditional analgesic choices lack good efficacy in managing the associated pain. As a result, in management of CHA, radiofrequency ablation (RFA) or pulse radiofrequency (PRF) has been tried with ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Grandhi RK,Kaye AD,Abd-Elsayed A

更新日期：2018-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Concussion is a significant issue in medicine and the media today. With growing interest on the long-term effects of sports participation, it is important to understand what occurs in the brain after an impact of any degree. While some of the basic pathophysiology has been elucidated, much is still unknown about what ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Choe MC

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New daily persistent headache (NDPH), which is the acute onset of headache within 3 days and is persistent for 15 days or more each month for at least 3 months, is a predominantly female heterogeneous subtype of chronic daily headache, typically with migraine features of unknown etiology. NDPH may be a presentation of...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Evans RW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chiari malformation type I (CMI) involves the caudal displacement of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum with resultant brainstem compression in some individuals. Due to pathophysiologic changes, secondary conditions may arise, such as syringohydromyelia (SH) and scoliosis. This disorder is unique, as th...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： McVige JW,Leonardo J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioids have become the unequivocal therapy of choice in treating many varieties of chronic pain. With the increased prescription of opioids, some unintended consequences have occurred. After prolonged opioid exposure, opioid-induced hyperalgesia (OIH), the paradoxical effect that opioid therapy may in fact enhance or...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Tompkins DA,Campbell CM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vast majority of people experience tension-type headache during their lifetimes. Boys experience tension-type headache slightly more than girls during preadolescent years. During adolescence and adult years, tension-type headache occurs more commonly in females. Tension-type headache changes in women occur in rela...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Marcus DA

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00