• Objective: To review the classification, diagnosis, and management of chronic daily headache (CDH). • Methods: Qualititative assessment of the literature. • Results: Many patients present to their physicians with frequent or even daily head pain. Careful evaluation of these patients is essential to rule out a number of possible secondary causes of persistent headache, such as trauma, vascular...

BACKGROUND Unruptured saccular intracranial aneurysm (SIA) is associated with an increased prevalence of migraine, but it is unclear whether this is altered by clipping of the aneurysm. The aim of our study was to determine whether remission rate of migraine and other recurrent headaches was greater in patients with SIA after clipping than in controls. METHODS We prospectively studied 87 SIA ...

Tricyclic antidepressants have a long history in the treatment of headache. In 1964 Lance and Curran reported a better response to amitriptyline (30-75 mg/day) in chronic tension headache (n=280) compared with 11 other commonly used drugs (such as benzodiazepines, vasodilators, and sedatives). They also reported a placebo controlled crossover trial of 27 patients that showed clinically signific...

Background: Migraine is the most common type of headache in the world and is one of the most important causes of patients to come to the neurologist office. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of migraine in high school students. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive study which was done on 2213 high school student, that accidentally chosen from couple of times a m...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE Primary headaches may be responsible for absenteeism and a fall in the yield and productivity of work. The aim of this study was to establish the presence and frequency of primary headache among employees of a rubber shoe sole company, and its link to absenteeism. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study carried out with help from the staff of the medical and social depa...

The aim of the study was to perform a mapping and umbrella review with meta-meta-analysis (MMA) synthesise critically evaluate effectiveness manual therapy (MT) aerobic exercise (AE) in relation pain intensity, frequency, disability quality life patients migraines, tension-type headaches (TTH) cervicogenic (CGH). A systematic search conducted PubMed, PEDro, Scielo Google Scholar up December 202...

Objective: Migraine and tension-type headache (TTH) are the most common primary headaches. It was aimed to obtain information about pathophysiology of these headaches by performing visual evoked potentials (VEPs) patients with migraine TTH. Material Methods: Healthy individuals, episodic migraine, TTH were included in this prospective study. Pattern reversal flash VEPs performed all participant...