Chronic Daily Headache for Clinicians (Book with CD-ROM)

"Frequent headache is the complaint of one in 20 patients a clinician sees. In each case the clinician must reach a differential diagnosis that answers the question. "What class of frequent headache syndrome (CDH) am I seeing here? Migraine? Cluster? Tension?" Only with a differential diagnosis in hand can the clinician then apply an appropriate treatment plan." "What are the classifications of CDH syndromes? Until recently, the nosology of frequent headache disorders has been mostly arbitrary, without foundation in basic or clinical science. BC Decker's new Chronic Daily Headache for Clinicians, however, attempts to bring nosologic order to CDH with classifications that can provide frameworks for the clinician to develop systematic approaches to evaluation and treatment. Using the basic definition of CDH by the International Headache Society, the text amplifies it, explains the underlying biology of each defined syndrome and recommends treatment strategies."--BOOK JACKET.