Headache A Practical Manual

Headache continues to have a major impact on the lives of many people across the world, and the needs of many sufferers go unmet. It impacts people of all ethnicity, age, and socio-economic background, and can have potentially life-changing consequences. Headaches can be accompanied by other co-morbidities and encountered by a wide variety of medical professionals, making accurate diagnosis and management challenging.

This is the second edition of Headache: A Practical Manual, developed by the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH), an organisation of health care professionals whose aim is to reduce the burden of headache through education and research. Practical, and easy to navigate, this comprehensive handbook offers a concise overview of the diagnosis and treatment of headache conditions.

Edited by a general practitioner and an academic neurologist, and written by experts in the field, this pocket-sized book is a concise reference for effective management for health care practitioners at all levels.

David Kernick, General Practitioner, St Thomas Medical Group, Exeter, UK,Peter J. Goadsby, Director NIHR King's Clinical Research Facility & Professor of Neurology, King's College London, UK

1. The headache consultation2. Imaging headache3. Severe headache of sudden onset4. Migraine5. Migraine management6. Migraine in women7. Tension-type headache8. Cluster headache and other trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias9. Medication overuse headache10. Headache due to disorders of CFS pressure11. Cervicogenic headache12. Headache attributed to head or neck trauma13. Vascular Headaches14. Headache associated with cough, exertion, sex and sport15. Headache associated with CNS infection16. New Daily Persistent Headache17. Other problematic and rarer headaches18. Headache and sleep19. Headache in children20. Headache in the older person21. Facial pain and cranial neuralgias22. Psychological approaches to headache conditions23. Acupuncture for headacheAppendices