Cervicogenic Headache Caused by Myofascial Trigger Points in the Sternocleidomastoid: A Case Report
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Cervicogenic headache caused by myofascial trigger points in the sternocleidomastoid: a case report.
Disturbances in the integrity of the upper cervical spine are now well known to be associated with head pain and can give rise to chronic daily headaches (1–3). Head pain that derives from cervical dysfunctions or disease is now contained under the category of cervicogenic headaches (4), which describes a heterogeneous group of disorders that commonly refer pain from structures in the cervical ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cephalalgia
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0333-1024,1468-2982
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2007.01296.x