Lecture 2 Flashcards
Types of HA
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Tension HA = >80%
- Frequent (<15 days/month) ***
- Chronic (>15 days/month)
- Migraine = 12-16%
- Medication overuse = ~3%
- Cluster HA/trigeminal cephalgias = ~ 0.1%
What is the most common type of HA?
Is it frequent or chronic more often?
Tension HA
Frequent (>15 days/month)
Secondary causes of HA
“Worse HA of my life”
Subarachnoid hemorrage
Secondary causes of HA
“New onset of focal neurologic weakness”
Stroke
Secondary causes of HA
“Onset of HA > 50YO”
- Temporal arthritis
- Neoplasm
Secondary causes of HA
“HA + systemic symptoms”
1. Meningitis
2. Encephalitis
Secondary causes of HA
“Eye pain => HA”
acute angle glaucoma
Secondary causes of HA
“High BP => HA”
1. HTN urgency/MRGNC
2. Preeclampsia
Generally, chronic HA can be caused by…treated with…
1. Mulitple etiologies
2. Multiple modalities/treatments and altering lifestyle
When performing OLDCARTS for a patient presenting with HA, what MUST we ask?
- Location: unilateral/bilateral/ radiation
- Characterstic: type of pain
- 3. Related symptoms: photosensitivity, aura, tearing?
- 4. Temporal: same time everday?
Tension HA
- Type of pain?
- Associated symptoms?
- Etiology
- Bilateral, tight/ achy that is tender, radiates from occipital/cervical region, with NO other
- None
- Not clear, but most are cervicogenic (perceived as occuring in another part of the body than true source) bc of (+) of trigeminal cervical complex
Categorize tension HA by frequency
- Infrequent: ≤1 days/month
- Frequent: 1 - 15 days/month
- Chronic: ≥ 15 days/month
Most common causes of tension HA
- Myofascial pain referral
- Cervical facet referral
- TMJ dysfunction
Tension HA caused by myofascial pain referral
- Mainly due to what?
- Where is pain/what causes pain?
- Overuse/injury to muscles
- Trigger points (palpable muscle knots) that is discrete, focal and hyperirritable. When touching => twitch response “OUCH”, pain pattern
Treatment of Tension Headache: myofascial pain referral
- Conservative therapy:
- Ischemic compression (manual manipulation),
- PT,
- Spray and stretch with a cold analgesic topical spray and lengthen muscle,
- Dry needling
- Trigger point injections – lidocaine and steroid
- Pharmacology – muscle relaxers and NSAIDS