This cutting-edge guide covers treating migraine and cluster headaches while providing practical clinical advice on approaching challenging patients of all ages. Unique features include: Extensive clinical pearls not available elsewhere; Psychiatric comorbidities are explored in depth; Extensive case studies explain how to use the vast array of medications; Outpatient headache treatment for all ages; Guidelines and blueprints for treating complex headache patients; The immune system and headach…
The approaches to the complex field of chronic headache are rapidly evolving. Accordingly, this timely and well-illustrated volume offers an in-depth description of all currently available surgical options for the treatment of migraine and headache (MH). With more than 300 high-quality figures, and written by an international panel of experts, this first edition of the Atlas of Surgical Therapy for Migraine and Tension-Type Headache, provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to perfor…
This book provides the practicing physician with a practical approach to the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of headache disorders based on lessons learned from real-life headache patients. Internationally well-known headache experts present cases from their own practice and discuss the evaluation and management of each case step by step. The clearly structured chapters cover initial evaluation and diagnostic work-up, imaging, differential diagnosis, interpretation of findings of further …
Rainer Thiele deals with chiropractic and examines two questions: Is chiropractic treatment of lower back pain a successful therapeutic approach? Is chiropractic treatment a standard treatment for headaches? On the topic of chiropractic in lower back pain, a congress abstract was published by the author using the latest randomized clinical studies and discussed as a poster contribution to the 16th Congress for Health Services Research in Berlin. A systematic review answers the question about ch…
Since The Cleveland Clinic Manual of Headache Therapy published, new guidelines and therapies have emerged. The Cleveland Clinic Manual of Headache Therapy, 2nd Edition provides these advances, as well as a number of clinical challenges not covered in the 1st edition - including headaches associated with opioids and traumatic brain injury. Organized by dedicated parts and chapters on diagnosis and treatment, this practical guide also features clinical pearls and summarizing tables. The Clevelan…
This book provides up-to-date information on all aspects of the comorbidities that are associated with the headache disorders commonly seen in the primary care and hospital settings, including migraine, tension-type headache, and cluster headache. The coverage is wide ranging and encompasses all of the well-established comorbidities: cardio- and cerebrovascular disease, psychiatric conditions, epilepsy, sleep disorders, and various pain disorders, such as visceral pain, fibromyalgia, orofacial …
This text is a comprehensive guide to the evaluation of patients with head and face pain. It is a resource for any physician or dentist to properly diagnosis and to learn the options for treating head and face pain, as well as know when to refer a patient to a specialist and how to identify which specialist is needed. It discusses the basic anatomy, etiology, and pathophysiology of head and face pain, classification guidelines for treatment, and clinical case examples. Additional chapters on ne…
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This book is a practical guide to headache medicine designed for both neurologists and general practitioners. Its expert author team introduces the principles of classification and diagnosis, and focuses in detail on the main classes of headache migraine, tension-type and trigeminal autonomic cephalgias, including cluster headache. The book's clinically focused practical approach covers unusual headache disorders, such as hemicrania continua and new daily persistent headache, and addresses the …
"The first section, Acute Headaches, includes those headaches that we all need to be aware of on a daily basis, particularly in the ER. These headache disorders can present challenges in diagnosis and treatment that are unique to emergency medicine. The second section, Episodic Headaches, is really the purview of office, clinic and consultant practice. This section includes a variety of common, and less common but interesting, primary headache disorders. Precise diagnosis of patients with epis…
"The first section, Acute Headaches, includes those headaches that we all need to be aware of on a daily basis, particularly in the ER. These headache disorders can present challenges in diagnosis and treatment that are unique to emergency medicine. The second section, Episodic Headaches, is really the purview of office, clinic and consultant practice. This section includes a variety of common, and less common but interesting, primary headache disorders. Precise diagnosis of patients with epis…