by Stephen D. Silberstein, Richard B. Lipton, Peter J. Goadsby, Robert T. Smith
An excellent resource for both physicians and patients, "Headache in Primary Care" discusses headache disorders, Migraine disease, and appropriate treatment. This book is written for primary care physicians, but is valuable to patients as well. Written by experts in the field, the book contains up-to-date theories on the causes of headache disorders, provides an overview of each, and recommends viable therapies.
An excellent resource for both physicians and patients, "Headache in Primary Care" discusses headache disorders, Migraine disease, and appropriate treatment. This book is written for primary care physicians, but is valuable to patients as well. Written by experts in the field, the book contains up-to-date theories on the causes of headache disorders, provides an overview of each, and recommends viable therapies.
What you'll find in this book
The first chapters cover classification and diagnosis, the epidemiology and impact of headache disorders, and diagnostic testing for headache disorders. Other chapters tackle specific types of headache disorders:- Primary headache disorders
- Migraine
- Tension-type headache
- Chronic daily headache
- cluster headache and related syndromes
- Secondary headache disorders
- Post-traumatic headache
- Headache associated with disease in the intracranial cavity
- Sinus headache
- Headache associated with central nervous system infection
- Pregnancy, breast feeding, and headache
- Geriatric headache
Summary
The value of this book is greatly enhanced by the graphics, charts and tables that accompany the text. The information is the most current available, whether you're looking into the true source of migraine or what drugs are safe during pregnancy.
