Headache in Primary Care

This text covers the range of knowledge about the treatment of headache from the point of view of the family doctor and clinical staff. The opening chapters cover the classification and diagnosis of headache, the epidemiology and impact of headache disorders, and diagnostic testing, while subsequent chapters each deal with a specific type of headache: migraine; tension headache; chronic headache; cluster headache; post-traumatic headache; headache associated with vascular and non-nascular intracranial disease; sinus headache; headache associated with the infection of the central nervous system; headache associated with pregnancy and breastfeeding; and geriatric headache.;Illustrated in colour and written by an international team, the book combines text, clinical photographs, diagnostic imaging and graphics in a series of to-the-point chapters. It provides a reference for medical students and for family practitioners, nursing staff and all carers for headache sufferers, as well as patients themselves.