Pure tension-type headache versus tension-type headache in the migraineur

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 465-469

  Blumenfeld, Andrew ^a   Schim, Jack ^a   Brower, Jessica ^a  

^a Headache Center of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Migraine chronification; Myofascial pain; Spectrum disorders; Temporomandibular disorders; Trigger points

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CYTOKINE; PLACEBO; PROSTAGLANDIN; SEROTONIN; SUBSTANCE P; SUMATRIPTAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; MOOD DISORDER; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHONOPHOBIA; PHOTOPHOBIA; PRIMARY HEADACHE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; SYNOVIAL FLUID; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDER; TENSION HEADACHE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; TRIGGER POINT; VOMITING;

HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; TENSION-TYPE HEADACHE;

EID: 78649905406     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-010-0147-1     Document Type: Review

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