Posttraumatic headache: Classification by symptom-based clinical profiles

Model System:

TBI

Reference Type:

Journal article

Accession No.:

J80531

Journal:

Headache

Year, Volume, Issue, Page(s):

2018 , 58, , 873-882

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Abstract:

Article reviews the existing schema used to characterize the clinical characteristics of posttraumatic headache, including the International Classification of Headache Disorders. There remain unresolved questions about whether to classify patients based on the extent of brain injury or on clinical symptom profiles. There also remain problematic issues of definition such as continuous headache, and chronic daily headache with features of “embedded” migraine-type within these headaches, which will need to be studied further. The authors make the case that a symptom-based classification is needed to begin an examination of these unresolved questions, and to establish clinically relevant endpoints for research and clinical trials for effective therapies.

Author(s):

Lucas, Sylvia|Ahn, Andrew H.|