Headache: A Practical Manual
A Practical Manual
1st Edition
Published on 6. November 2008
341 pages
978-0-19-155260-1 (ISBN)
Description
Headache is a global problem and the needs of sufferers go largely unmet. The World Health Organisation puts migraine in the top twenty diseases in terms of disability adjusted life years. Headache causes considerable economic and social impact to both sufferers and families. Current UK policy offers opportunities for the development of headache services focussed in primary care. The book offers a concise overview of the diagnosis and treatment of headache conditions and is relevant for the practitioner at any level from neurologists to general practitioner. It will also be relevant for a wide range of other practitioners such as nurses and physiotherapists who are involved in the management of headache. It is written by members of the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH) and jointly edited by a general practitioner and a consultant neurologist who hasa specific interest in headache. Headache: A Practical Manuual provides easily accessible evidence-based information in handbook format. It has been developed with specific links to BASH guidelines and policies for patient management, and chapters have been co-authored by BASH experts. It includes evidence-based treatments both pharmacological and non-pharmacological.
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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
