Headaches Flashcards
Headache causing excruciating, unilateral periorbital or temporal pain, with ipsilateral autonomic symptoms. Predominantly affecting males more than females.
What headache is this?
Cluster headache
Headache causes mild generalized pain without the incapacity nausea, or photophobia associated with migraine. The pain pattern typically consists of a band across the forehead.
What headache is this?
Tension-type headache
A unilateral headache associated with evidence of cervical involvement through provocation of pain by movement of the neck or by pressing the neck; concurrent pain in the neck, shoulder, and arm; and reduced range of motion of the neck, with or without other features
What headache is this?
Cervicogenic headache
An episodic primary headache disorder. Pain is often unilateral, throbbing, worse with exertion, and accompanied by symptoms such as nausea and sensitivity to light, sound, or odors. Auras occur in about 25% of patients, usually just before by sometimes after the headache.
Associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke.
What kind of headache is this?
Migraine w/Aura
No increased risk of ischemic stroke. Present with usual unilateral, throbbing, worse with extension, and accompanied by nausea, light, sound and smell sensitivity.
What kind of headache is this?
Migrane w/o Aura
Involves shooting, shocking, throbbing, burning, aching pain, and headache that generally starts at the base of the head and spreads along the scalp on one or both sides of the head. Involves occipital nerves which run from the area where the spinal column meets the neck, up to the scalp at the back of the head to the eye.
What headache is this?
Occipital Neuralgia
Migraine is likely to develop in either 2 days leading up to or 3 days after the start of the menstrual cycle. Happens because of the natural drop of estrogen levels at these times.
What headache is this?
Hormone headache
