Cervicogenic headache: Evidence that the neck is a pain generator

Headache

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 699-705

  Becker, Werner J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cervicogenic; Facet joint; Headache; Medial branch block; Whiplash; Zygapophysial joint

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINE; CERVICOGENIC HEADACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FRONTAL LOBE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; NECK; NECK PAIN; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NERVE BLOCK; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TRIGEMINAL CAUDAL NUCLEUS; WHIPLASH INJURIES; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 77950532564     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2010.01648.x     Document Type: Review

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