The headache which sometimes develops after a lumbar puncture has a dual interest, for not only is it important in the clinical management of the patient, but also it has stimulated enquiry into the causative mechanism of headache as a whole. Post-puncture headache has characteristic features. It may appear from a few hours to a few days after the puncture, and it is made worse by jugular compr...

The emotional trauma of bereavement can, on occasion, be translated into physical trauma. Phrases such as "grinding of teeth", "breast-beating" and "tearing one's hair out" have a traditional association with mourning and lamentation.' We report a case where bereavement led directly to an uncommon neurological complication of blunt trauma. A forty year old housewife from the United Arab Emirate...

Two different self-help training programs (multimodal cognitive-behavioral training (CBT) and applied relaxation (AR)) presented via the Internet were compared with an educational intervention (EDU) in an RCT. Sixty-five children and adolescents (mean age: 12.7 years) with recurrent headache (at least 2 attacks per month) were each assigned to one of the three treatment conditions. The main out...

It is new clear that the brain of headache sufferers are different from those people without headache, theimaging study showed thickening in specific area related to communication sensory processingcalled somatosensory cortex (post central region) this we examine 36 patient, 28 them haveheadache variable duration, 8 healthy patient used as control (i.e. has no headache). The result foundthat th...

Headache is a potential complication of epidural injection. We report a patient who developed headache 5 days after a lumbar epidural steroid injection, which was not related to the epidural procedure, but caused by Duloxetine induced hyponatremia. Antidepressant drug induced headache should be considered in the differential diagnosis of post dural puncture headache.

The relevance of headache to outcome following sports concussion is poorly understood and no studies exist examining this issue. The current study was conducted to investigate whether postconcussion headaches are associated with neurocognitive deficits and/or presence of other postconcussion symptoms at approximately one-week post injury. Study participants included 110 high school athletes who...

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Introduction Dural puncture is a commonly performed invasive procedure for various indications like diagnostic lumbar puncture, spinal anaesthesia, myelography and intrathecal chemotherapy. However, in anaesthesia practice apart from intentional dural puncture as in spinal anaesthesia, unintentional dural puncture can also occur while performing epidural anaesthesia or analgesia for various ind...