BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Chronic post-traumatic headache attributed to mild head injury is a somewhat disputed headache diagnosis. A main object of this study was to assess the validity of this diagnosis by studying the headache pattern of concussed patients that participated in one historic (n = 131) and one prospective cohort (n = 217) study. METHODS Head injury patients were recruited from t...

conclusions there is no difference between median and paramedian approaches with respect to pdph incidence; the paramedian approach is therefore recommended, especially for older patients with degenerative changes in the spine and intervertebral spaces and those who cannot take the proper position. moreover, the rate of pdph was found to be significantly higher in females than in males. results...

Post dural puncture headache (PDPH) can be observed after any trauma to the dura. The hallmark of PDPH is an increasing headache when assuming the upright position and improvement with the supine position. Diagnosis of PDPH is essentially based on history of dural puncture and clinical presentation. In most cases, if initial conservative therapies fail to provide the relief of symptoms, an epid...

Chronic, recurrent headache commonly follows head injury, and interestingly, it is seen more often in individuals who have experienced minor head trauma than in those more seriously injured. I will describe subtypes and behavioral treatments of the post-traumatic headache. One must realize, however, that headache is only one of a number of symptoms that commonly follow head injury. While it may...

BACKGROUND The aetiology behind chronic post-traumatic headache (CPTH) after mild head injury is unclear and management is complicated. In order to optimize treatment strategies we aimed to characterize a CPTH population. METHODS Ninety patients with CPTH and 45 patients with chronic primary headaches were enrolled from the Danish Headache Center. All patients were interviewed about demograph...

abstract background: the most common complication of lumbar puncture (lp) occurring in over thirty percent of patients is headache. the position after lumbar puncture, needle type and size, and volume of the extracted cerebrospinal fluid (csf) have been evaluated as contributory factors in occurrence of post lumbar puncture headache (plph), but the position before lumbar puncture has not been e...

introduction: post dural puncture headache is still a common complication among young women undergone cesarean section, although use of small size spinal needles reduced its prevalence. several methods have been suggested for prevention and treatment of this side effect; such as complete bed rest, hydration, non-opioid analgesics, caffeine, codeine, which none of them proved to be totally effec...

Pneumocephalus is a commonly encountered entity in patients of head trauma and post-op cases neurosurgery, however it rarely observed after spinal anaesthesia.
 It presents orthostatic hypotension associated with severe headache, nausea vomiting. We report case pneumocephalus following anaesthesia administered for open hernia repair.
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Spinal anaesthesia is associated with certain complications such as severe hypotension, post-spinal headache, meningitis, audiovisual disturbances and some time transient or permanent neurological damage. Now-a-days spinal anaesthesia is in demand again due to cost effectiveness, rapidity and predictability of effects and decreased rate of complications. A case of a young woman who received spi...

CONTEXT Studies have revealed the rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and concussion among US soldiers returning from combat, but only one study has focused on the subpopulation of soldiers with headache. OBJECTIVES To determine the rate of PTSD among US soldiers with comorbid chronic posttraumatic headache attributed to head injury, to identify common mechanisms of head injury, and...