Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan may be particularly susceptible to headaches occurring after their exposure to warfare. The reasons for this may be related to new forms of weapons, often involving explosive devices that can set off a chain of brain changes resulting in either new headaches, or worsening of a pre-existing headache disorder. Recent statistics show that up to 20% of Operation Ira...

BACKGROUND Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a safe and efficient treatment for several severe psychiatric disorders, but its use is limited by side effects. Post-ECT headache is one of the commonest side effects. Preemptive analgesia is effective in post-surgical pain management. The most commonly used analgesic is acetaminophen (paracetamol). However, acetaminophen as a preemptive analgesic ...

migraine is one of the common varieties of headache. it involves 4 to 6 percent of men and 13 to 16 percent of women under 30 years in more than 80% of cases. some studies have shown that in 50% of patients serum magnesium level decreases during attacks of headache and using magnesium tablets and intravenous magnesium sulfate is more effective for treatment of migraine attack, than placebo. thi...

objectives: the aim of this study was to evaluate the etiology, associated injurers and clinical presentation of post traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. methods: this study was a cross-sectional study being conducted in the department of cardiovascular, thoracic surgery (cvts) and pediatric surgery, sher-i-kashmir institute of medical sciences (skims), srinagar, kashmir, india. all patients of pos...

We studied the prevalence and short-term natural course of chronic frequent headache (CFH) in the general population and identified risk factors. In the Netherlands everyone is registered at a single general practice. We sent questionnaires to all persons (n = 21 440) aged 25-55 years, registered at 16 general practices. We compared the characteristics of 177 participants with CFH (>14 headache...

Post-traumatic headaches are one of the most common and controversial secondary headache types. After mild head injury, up to 50% of people develop a post concussion syndrome, which has been controversial for over 135 years. Headache is estimated as present in 30% to 90% of patients after mild head injury. Most headaches are of the tension type, although migraines can increase in frequency or o...

introduction delayed splenic rupture (dsr) is an unusual outcome following blunt abdominal trauma. although dsr is defined as bleeding more than 48 hours after blunt trauma in a previously hemodynamically stable patient, a review of the reported cases in the literature shows that in almost all of the cases the initial ct imaging revealed some form of damage to the spleen. case presentation here...

Migraine is, essentially, an episodic disease. However, characteristics of headache of some episodic migraine change like as tension-type headache and number of headache days also increased, as a result, develop into chronic migraine.However, it is difficult to distinguish chronic migraine and medication oversuse headache. For this reason, and because of the general rule, The international Clas...

It is well known that symptoms of post-dural puncture headache (PDPH) are more likely if there has been a preceding PDPH. We herein present a patient who developed a PDPH following each of two dural punctures separated by 9 years.

The aim of this research was to study the prevalence of chronic headache (CH) and associated socio-cultural factors in Turkish immigrants and native Germans. Five hundred and twenty-three Turkish and German company employees were screened using a standard questionnaire. Those who suffered from headaches were also examined by a neurologist. Complete data were available for 471 (90%) subjects. Th...