We have previously shown headache to be highly prevalent among adults in Saudi Arabia. Here we estimate associated symptom burden and impaired participation (impaired use of time, lost productivity an...
A randomised cross-sectional survey included 2,316 adults (18-65 years) from all 13 regions of the country. It used the standardised methodology of the Global Campaign against Headache with a cultural...
For all headache, mean frequency was 4.3 days/month, mean duration 8.4 h, mean intensity 2.3 (moderate). Mean pTIS was 3.6%. Mean lost days from work were 3.9, from household chores 6.6, from social/l...
A very high symptom burden is associated with a commensurately high burden of impaired participation. The economic cost appears to be enormous. Over a third of the adult population are revealed to req...
To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the SNNOOP10 list in the detection of high-risk headaches....
Patients that visited the Hospital Clínico San Carlos (Madrid) emergency department due to headache that were allocated to a Manchester Triage System level between critical and urgent were prospective...
Between April 2015 and October 2021, 100 patients were included. Patients were 44 years old (inter-quartile range: 33.6-64.7) and 57% were female. We identified 37 different diagnoses. Final diagnosis...
The red flags from the SNNOOP10 list showed a 100% sensitivity in the detection of high-risk headache disorders....
Investigate the use of nasal endoscopy, sinus imaging, and neurologic evaluation in patients presenting to a rhinologist primarily for craniofacial pain....
This was a retrospective analysis of consecutive outpatients presenting to a rhinologist between 2016 and 2019 with chief complaints of craniofacial pain with or without other sinonasal symptoms, who ...
Of the 134 patients with prominent craniofacial pain, the majority of patients were diagnosed with migraine (50%) or tension-type (22%) headache, followed by multiple other non-sinogenic headache diso...
Patients presenting with chief complaints of craniofacial pain generally met criteria for various non-sinogenic headache disorders. Nasal endoscopy was negative in 90% of patients, and CT demonstrated...
Converging evidence suggests that anatomical and functional mesocorticolimbic abnormalities support the chronicization of pain disorders....
We mapped structural and functional alterations of the mesocorticolimbic system in a sample of chronic cluster headache patients (n = 28) in comparison to age and sex-matched healthy individuals (n = ...
Univariate logistic regression models showed that several of the examined structures/areas (i.e., the bilateral nucleus accumbens, ventral diencephalon, hippocampus, and frontal pole, and the right am...
Our results showed that chronic cluster headache patients present anatomical and functional maladaptation of the mesocorticolimbic system, with functional data indicating a possible prefrontal areas' ...
We investigated the prevalence of headache, migraine, and medication-overuse headache (MOH) among children and adolescents through a school-based online questionnaire. We also investigated the trigger...
Children and adolescents aged 6-17 y.o. completed an online questionnaire. Migraine, MOH was defined as The International Classification of Headache Disorders Third edition. Factor and clustering anal...
Of the 2489 respondents, the prevalence of headache, migraine, and MOH were 36.44%, 9.48%, and 0.44%, respectively. Up to 70% of the respondents with headaches complained of the disturbance to daily l...
This is the first detailed study on headache prevalence in Japanese students from elementary school to high school in one region. The burden of headaches is large among children and adolescents, and t...
Landmark-guided zygomaticotemporal nerve blocks are a well-described modality to manage headaches in the temporal region. We report 3 cases in which ultrasound-guided zygomaticotemporal nerve blocks w...
The Chronic Headache Education and Self-Management Study (CHESS) multicentre randomised trial evaluated the impact a group education and self-management support intervention with a best usual care plu...
The CHESS trial included 736 (380 intervention: 356 control) people across the Midlands and London UK. We used a mixed methods approach. Our extensive process evaluation looked at context, reach, recr...
The CHESS trial reached out to a large diverse population and recruited a representative sample. Few people with chronic tension type headaches without migraine were identified and recruited. The expe...
From a process evaluation perspective despite our extensive data collection and analysis, we do not have a clear understanding of why the trial outcome was negative as the intervention was delivered a...
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Headaches occur when cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure drops following dural puncture or trauma or spontaneously. As the features of these headaches and their accompanying symptoms might not be typic...
The aim of this narrative review is to summarize the most recent evidence regarding the clinical presentation and the diagnosis of low CSF pressure headache syndromes....
The clinical spectrum low CSF pressure headache syndromes varies significantly and key signs might be missing. Low CSF pressure headache syndromes should be included in the differential diagnosis of a...
We investigated whether a specific exercise program for the neck-shoulder region reduces headache intensity, frequency, and duration, and how it influences neck disability among women with chronic hea...
Two-center randomized controlled trial....
116 working-age women....
The exercise group (n = 57) performed a home-based program with six progressive exercise modules, over 6 months. The control group (n = 59) underwent six placebo-dosed transcutaneous electrical nerve ...
The primary outcome was pain intensity of headache, assessed using the Numeric Pain Rating Scale. Secondary outcomes were frequency and duration of weekly headaches, and neck disability assessed using...
Mean pain intensity at baseline was 4.7 (95% CI 4.4 to 5.0) in the exercise group and 4.8 (4.5 to 5.1) in the control group. After 6 months the decrease was slight with no between-group difference. He...
The progressive exercise program almost halved headache frequency. The exercise program could be recommended as one treatment option for women with chronic headache....
Chronic headache greatly affects the quality of life and also constitutes a significant burden on the health system....
The objective of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of telephone-based follow-up in a cohort of headache patients in India....
This was a longitudinal cohort study of patients with episodic headache with one physical visit in the neurology outpatient services in the last year. Two neurologists conducted the telephone follow u...
A total of 214 out of 274 eligible patients were included in the cohort. The mean age was 31.74 ± 7.77 years (18-45), and 164 (77%) were females. Migraine without aura was the most common diagnosis in...
Telephone-based follow-up is a feasible alternative for repeat outpatient consultation of headache patients....
