Pharmacological Management of Headaches

Provides practice-oriented guidance, with tips and tricks from experienced headache specialists Covers treatment in special patient groups Endorsed by the European Headache Federation, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the lives of headache sufferers in Europe

Inhalt

1 Headache classification.- 2 Epidemiology of headache disorders.- 3 General principles of pharmacotherapy for headache disorders.- 4 Placebo and nocebo effects.- 5 Review of existing guidelines.- 6 Acute migraine treatment.- 7 Preventive (episodic) migraine treatment.- 8 Drug treatment for chronic migraine.- 9 Drug treatment for episodic and chronic tension-type headache (TTH).- 10 Cluster headache: acute and transitional treatment.- 11 Cluster headache: preventive treatment.- 12 Pharmacotherapy for other primary headache disorders.- 13 Pharmacotherapy for primary headache disorders in children.- 14 Pharmacological strategies in the prevention of migraine in children.- 15 Pharmacotherapy for primary headache disorders during pregnancy and lactation.- 16 Pharmacotherapy for primary headache disorders in the elderly.- 17 Acute and chronic posttraumatic headache.- 18 Headache attributed to low and increased CSF pressure.- 19 Medication-overuseheadache.- 20 Painful cranial neuropathies.- 21 Dental and Musculoskeletal Pain.- 22 Post-traumatic neuropathies and Burning mouth syndrome.