Introduction Muscle pain has been associated with reduced maximal muscle strength, and reduced rate of force development (RFD). Strength training (ST) has shown an effect in not only normalizing muscle function but also reducing neck muscle pain. Aim The aims of this study were to compare muscle function in terms of strength, force steadiness in neck flexion, as well as extension, and rate of...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the demographic features of the population sample, the time of headache complaint until first consultation and the diagnosis of primary and secondary headaches. METHOD 3328 patients were analyzed retrospectively and divided according to gender, age, race, school instruction, onset of headache until first consultation and diagnosis(ICHD-II, 2004). RESULTS Sex ratio (Fema...

BACKGROUND Measuring quality of life (QOL) is an important means of assessing the impact of headache. The currently used QOL questionnaires are usually geared toward migraine and focus on a limited number of factors, thus they are not necessarily informative in other headache types. We report the psychometric properties of a new questionnaire, the Comprehensive Headache-related Quality of life ...

Primary headache syndromes may generally be distinguished as being either episodic, such as typical migraine or cluster headache, or chronic, such as chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) or hemicrania continua. In truth it is chronic headache, and most particularly chronic daily headache (CDH) in its various forms, that gives the sub-speciality of headache a bad name. Daily headache in all its ...

The intent of the study is to establish effectiveness suboccipital soft tissue inhibition technique versus neurodynamics on tension type headache for female physiotherapy students. Tension-Type Headache (TTH) a symptom with greater impact quality life and significant socioeconomic impact. stress are common in student. Long term can progress chronic headache, which has great daily patients, inst...

Primary headache disorders such as migraine affect almost a third of women during their childbearing years, when decisions about contraception must be made. Headache is also a commonly reported adverse event in clinical trials of oral contraceptives (OCs). Health care practitioners will frequently be called upon to give advice about the use of OCs to women with headache. This article applies cu...

Abstract Background There have been several calls for estimations of costs and consequences headache interventions to inform European public-health policies. In a previous paper, in the absence universally accepted methodology, we developed headache-type-specific analytical models be applied implementation structured services Europe as health-care solution headache. Here apply this methodology ...

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:...

Although tension-type headache (TTH) is the most common primary in world, much fewer studies on its pathophysiology have been carried out comparison to other headaches. Inflammatory processes are important of both peripheral and central pain. Studies role inflammatory markers TTH patients limited. Therefore, this study, it was aimed examine parameters TTH. 199 154 control participants were invo...

Several studies focused on the role of vitamin D (vitD) in pain chronification. This study vitD level and chronification extension headache disorders. Eighty patients with primary underwent neurological examination, laboratory exams, including serum calcifediol 25(OH)D, features assessment along three questionnaires investigating depression, anxiety, allodynia. The 86.8% population had migraine...