How to investigate and treat: headache and hyperprolactinemia.

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：: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：:Cluster headache was first described over 300 years ago, but in the last century our knowledge of the disorder has exploded through both clinical observation and epidemiological data. Although some of the data are conflicting and more need to be obtained, much is known about the disorder. This article reviews the data...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Broner SW,Cohen JM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

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：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：:Complementary medical therapies are commonly used for the treatment and management of myofascial pain. No universally accepted therapy for this condition exists; consequently, patients often seek alternative and complementary therapies. Many complementary treatments are available.This article focuses on acupuncture, b...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Harris RE,Clauw DJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of migraine pathophysiology has evolved from the belief that migraine is a vascular disorder, to evidence that better defines migraine as a neurogenic disorder associated with secondary changes in brain perfusion. There is evidence to suggest that the early phase of migraine pain results from neuroge...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Biondi DM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migraine is a debilitating neurological disorder with grave consequences for both the individual and society. This review will focus on recent literature investigating how brain structures implicated in reward and aversion contribute to the genesis of migraine pain. There exist many overlapping and interacting brain r...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Cahill CM,Cook C,Pickens S

更新日期：2014-05-01 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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:This review highlights the importance of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) in headache sufferers. OMT is a viable option for patients who either do not wish to use pharmaceuticals or who have contraindications to pharmaceuticals. Patients with headaches that are refractory to other treatment op...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Whalen J,Yao S,Leder A

更新日期：2018-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Whereas most pain due to cancer can be relieved with relatively simple methods using oral analgesics, as suggested by WHO guidelines, some patients may have difficult pain situations that require more complex approaches. It is estimated that 10-20 % of cancer patients suffer from pain that is not easily relieved. Ther...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Mercadante S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Chiari I malformation is a cerebellar anomaly of uncertain origin, defined in part as tonsillar herniation of at least 3 to 5 mm below the foramen magnum; it is associated with crowding of the craniocervical junction. It is the most frequent of the Chiari malformations and is associated with headaches, syringohydr...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Taylor FR,Larkins MV

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A flurry of recent randomized, placebo-controlled trials assessing dissimilar pharmacotherapeutic treatment options for fibromyalgia (FM) have been presented in the past few years. This review evaluates these trials in light of recent pathophysiological concepts germane to FM, including mood disorders, autonomic dysre...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Holman AJ

更新日期：2008-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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

abstract：:A number of patients attending specialty headache centers complain of very frequent, almost continuous headaches, which are usually grouped together under the term chronic daily headache (CDH), a category which does not appear in the International Headache Society (IHS) classification published in 1988. More than 10 y...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Sandrini G,Cecchini AP,Tassorelli C,Nappi G

更新日期：2001-12-01 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：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：:The experience of chronic pain can be associated with significant distress and disability; however, this is not always the case. Although attempts to control or reduce pain can be helpful for many pain sufferers, on some occasions this is not an effective option and a different response is required. This different res...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： McCracken LM,Vowles KE

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) classically features a clinical presentation that includes longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis and optic neuritis. However, many other pathognomonic phenomena have more recently been described in patients diagnosed with NMO, including intractable hiccups, vomiting, ...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Masters-Israilov A,Robbins MS

更新日期：2017-04-01 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：: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：:A greater understanding of the mechanisms that produce chronic pain states has led to a search for novel agents with the potential to produce analgesia by directly modulating specific processes involved in the transduction, transmission, modulation, perception, and encoding of pain. It is hoped that compounds directed...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Hewitt DJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：: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：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:Neuropathic pain is often debilitating, severely limiting the daily lives of patients who are affected. Typically, neuropathic pain is difficult to manage and, as a result, leads to progression into a chronic condition that is, in many instances, refractory to medical management. RECENT FINDINGS:Gaba...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Viswanath O,Urits I,Jones MR,Peck JM,Kochanski J,Hasegawa M,Anyama B,Kaye AD

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE OF REVIEW:In the present investigation, current literature on the relationship between substance abuse and pain is evaluated in order to improve clinical management and its implications on the increasingly challenging chronic pain and substance abuse epidemic. The relationship between substance abuse and chroni...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Vadivelu N,Kai AM,Kodumudi G,Haddad D,Kodumudi V,Kuruvilla N,Kaye AD,Urman RD

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropathic pain is a debilitating chronic pain condition, which remains difficult to treat. The current mainstays of treatment include physical therapy, interventional procedures and medications. Among medications, ion channel blockers and gabapentinoids are the 2 classes of drugs commonly used to treat neuropathic p...

journal_title：Current pain and headache reports

authors： Chen L,Mao J

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00