Full Description
This book is a foundation for further study into childhood headache and serve as a quick, up-to-date reference for the recognition, diagnosis, basic understanding, evaluation and management of headache disorders in children and adolescents.* Covers primary headache disorders including migraine* Covers secondary headaches, including sinus, and post traumatic headache* Provides thoughtful guidelines on behavioural management strategies as well as pharmacologic therapies
Contents
Chapter 1: History of Childhood Headaches. Epidemiology, Classification and Pathophysiology of pediatric headaches. Chapter 2: Evaluation and Classification. Chapter 3: Diagnostic Testing and Concerning Variants. Chapter 4: Epidemiology of Pediatric Headaches. Chapter 5: Impact of Childhood Headaches. Chapter 6: Emergent evaluation and management. Chapter 7: Pathophysiology. Primary Headache Disorders. Chapter 8: Migraine: Diagnosis and Treatment. Chapter 9: Migraine Variants and the Periodic Syndromes. Chapter10: Tension-type headache: Diagnosis and Treatment. Chapter 11: Chronic Daily Headaches in Children. Chapter 12: Other Primary Headache Disorders. Chapter 13: Biobehavioral Management of Childhood Headaches. Secondary Headache Disorders. Chapter 14: Sinus Headache and Nasal Disease. Chapter 15: Post-traumatic Headaches. Chapter 16: Headaches associated with altered intracranial pressure. Chapter 17: Other Secondary Headaches. Index.
