
Headache: A Practical Manual
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Getting to grips with the basics
- Headache impact
- The classification of headache
- Developing evidence-based headache care
- The headache consultation
- 2 Investigating the headache
- Investigating the headache
- Who to investigate
- Images of headache
- 3 Severe headache of sudden onset
- Introduction
- Subarachnoid haemorrhage
- Central venous thrombosis (CVT)
- Cervical arterial dissection
- Reversible segmental vasoconstriction syndrome (RSVS)
- Spontaneous intracranial hypotension
- Pituitary apoplexy
- Other acute headache dealt with elsewhere
- 4 The migraine attack
- Epidemiology of migraine
- Making the diagnosis of migraine
- Co-morbidity and associations
- The migraine attack
- Migraine variants and complications
- When to investigate
- 5 Migraine treatment
- Behaviour and lifestyle modification
- Pharmacological treatment of the acute attack
- Pharmacological treatment for prevention
- Occipital nerve manipulation
- 6 Migraine in women
- Migraine and menstruation
- Migraine and contraception
- Migraine and pregnancy
- 7 Tension-type headache
- Introduction
- Clinical features
- Differential diagnosis
- Pathophysiology
- Treatment
- 8 Cluster headache and other trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias
- Introduction
- Cluster headache
- Paroxysmal hemicrania
- SUNCT
- 9 Cervicogenic headache
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Clinical features
- Differential diagnosis
- Pathogenesis
- Treatment
- 10 Headache attributed to head or neck trauma
- Introduction
- Establishing a relationship of headache with the trauma
- Classification of post-traumatic headache
- Prognosis
- Investigation of post-traumatic headache
- Treatment of post-traumatic headache
- 11 Headache due to disorders of CSF pressure
- Idiopathic intracranial hypertension
- Intracranial hypotension
- 12 Headache associated with exertion, cough and sex
- Introduction
- Mechanism of exertional headache
- Cough headache
- Physical exertion headache
- Headache associated with sexual activity
- 13 Other secondary headaches
- Headaches attributed to vascular disorders
- Headaches due to systemic or metabolic diseases (disorders of homeostasis)
- Headaches associated with CNS infections
- 14 Medication overuse headache
- Introduction
- Clinical features
- Treatment
- Prognosis of treated medication overuse headache
- 15 Headache in children
- Introduction
- Secondary headache
- Primary headache
- 16 Headache in the elderly
- Introduction
- Specific problems in the elderly
- Primary headache in the elderly
- Important secondary headaches in the elderly
- 17 Facial pain
- Introduction
- Facial pain associated with rhinosinusitis
- Facial neuralgias
- Post-herpetic neuralgia
- Temporomandibular disorder
- Chronic idiopathic facial pain (atypical facial pain)
- 18 Alternative approaches where evidence is awaited or contested
- Psychology in headache management
- Acupuncture
- Homeopathy
- Botulinum toxin
- PFO closure
- 19 The role of the specialist nurse in headache
- Introduction
- Role development
- Activities undertaken by the headache nurse
- Conclusion
- 20 The development of headache services
- Introduction
- Current headache care and service development
- The British Association for the Study of Headache model of care
- Developing an evidence base for service development
- Appendices
- 1 International Headache Society classification of headache
- 2 Headache impact questionnaires
- 3 Useful websites
- 4 Patient consent form for injecting the occipital nerve
- 5 Some important drug interactions
- 6 Dermatomes and cranial nerves
- Further reading
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Z
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