BACKGROUND Tinnitus and headache are frequent disorders. Here, we aimed to investigate whether the occurrence of headache among tinnitus patients is purely coincidental or whether tinnitus and headache are pathophysiologically linked. We investigated a large sample of patients with tinnitus and headache to estimate prevalence rates of different headache forms, to determine the relationship betw...

CONTEXT Episodic tension-type headache is common and is often treated using manual therapies. Few data exist for the efficacy of these interventions. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of spinal manipulation therapy on adults with episodic tension-type headache. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial lasting 19 weeks. SETTING Outpatient facility of a National Health Service-funded chiropracti...

Objective: To assess the efficacy of Memantine as a preventive and therapeutic intervention for migraine and tension-type headache. Methods: This clinical trial was conducted over a period of 3 months. A total of 44 subjects, with diagnosed migraine and/or tension-type headache, presenting to a private neurology clinic in Karachi, Pakistan were selected through purposive sampling technique. Pat...

Background: Headache is one of the most common complaints in children and adolescents and comorbidity rates are very high and the major associated diseases are depression, anxiety, atopic disorders, sleep, and behavioral disorders. In recent years, it has been highlighted that difficulties regulating emotions such as alexithymia have also been associated with diagnosis of somatization. Methods:...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture compared with minimal acupuncture and with no acupuncture in patients with tension-type headache. DESIGN Three armed randomised controlled multicentre trial. SETTING 28 outpatient centres in Germany. PARTICIPANTS 270 patients (74% women, mean age 43 (SD 13) years) with episodic or chronic tension-type headache. INTERVENTIONS Acup...

Theoretical developments and burgeoning research on stress and illness in the mid-20th century yielded the foundations necessary to conceptualize headache as a psychophysiological disorder and eventually to develop and apply contemporary behavioral headache treatments. Over the past three decades, these behavioral headache treatments (relaxation training, biofeedback, cognitive-behavioral thera...

BACKGROUND Head repositioning tasks have been used in different experimental and clinical contexts to quantitatively measure motor control performance. Effects of pain on sensorimotor control have often been described in various musculoskeletal conditions and may provide relevant information with regard to potential mechanisms underlying tension-type headaches. The purpose of the current study ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and relative adverse effects of tricyclic antidepressants in the treatment of migraine, tension-type, and mixed headaches. DESIGN Meta-analysis. DATA SOURCES Medline, Embase, the Cochrane Trials Registry, and PsycLIT. Studies reviewed Randomised trials of adults receiving tricyclics as only treatment for a minimum of four weeks. DATA EXTRACTION Frequency...

Sinus infections are much less common today than they were in the preantibiotic era, but they still are overdiagnosed. Acute sinusitis, a relatively uncommon cause of headache, is the result of infection of one or more of the cranial sinuses. Acute sinusitis usually is characterized by purulent discharge in the nasal passages and a pain profile determined by the site of infection. Sinusitis is ...

Although the understanding of the pathophysiology and the pharmacology of migraine has exploded there are still many pitfalls that may occur in the clinical assessment and management of migraine. This may prevent the patient from receiving optimal treatment. A diagnosis of migraine may be missed in the presence of other headache types that occur more frequently than migraine. Also, migraine may...