Cluster Headaches: Introduction and Epidemiology Peter J. Goadsby Peer Tfelt-Hansen CLASSIFICATION AND SHORT DESCRIPTION Cluster headache (CH) falls into group 3 of the International Headache Society (IHS) classification, the trigeminal…
Prophylactic Pharmacotherapy of Tension-Type Headache Lars Bendtsen Ninan T. Mathew Prophylactic pharmacotherapy should be considered in patients with chronic tension-type headache (CTTH). Quality of life is substantially reduced in these…
Acute Pharmacotherapy of Tension-Type Headaches Ninan T. Mathew Messoud Ashina This chapter discusses the treatment of individual attacks of headache in patients with episodic and chronic tension-type headache. Most headache…
Physiotherapy of Tension-Type Headaches Rigmor Jensen Julie Mills Roth Physiotherapy is often used in the treatment of tension-type headache (TTH) despite limited scientific evidence demonstrating efficacy. In the field of…
Psychological Treatments of Tension-Type Headaches Kenneth A. Holroyd Paul R. Martin Justin M. Nash In this chapter, we address the following questions: (a) What is psychological treatment? (b) How effective…
General Approach to Treatment of Tension-Type Headaches Richard C. Peatfield John G. Edmeads Tension-type headache (TTH) is extremely common; its epidemiology is discussed in detail in Chapter 67. It is…
Differential Diagnosis and Prognosis of Tension-Type Headaches Jean Schoenen Rigmor Jensen DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS According to the second edition of the International Headache Society’s (IHS) International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-II…
Symptomatology of Chronic Tension-Type Headaches Rigmor Jensen Werner J. Becker Except for its frequency, chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) is similar to frequent episodic tension-type headache (ETTH) in most of its…
Symptomatology of Episodic Tension-Type Headaches Rigmor Jensen Werner J. Becker In its milder and infrequent forms, episodic tension-type headache (ETTH) is usually experienced as a normal headache or as a…
Synthesis of Tension-Type Headache Mechanisms Lars Bendtsen Jean Schoenen The mechanisms leading to tension-type headache have been investigated in a number of good studies over the recent years, and it…
