Treatment outcomes of chronic post-traumatic headaches after mild head trauma in us soldiers: An observational study

Headache

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 932-944

  Erickson, Jay C ^a  

^a MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

blast; concussion; migraine; mild head trauma; post traumatic headache; triptan

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORTRIPTYLINE; OPIATE; PARACETAMOL; PROPRANOLOL; TOPIRAMATE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRIPTAN DERIVATIVE; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST POSTTAUMATIC HEADACHE; BLAST POSTTRAUMATIC HEADACHE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEADACHE FREQUENCY AND MIGRAINE DISABILITY ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRAINE; NEUROBEHAVIORAL SYMPTOM INVENTORY; NON BLAST POSTTRAUMATIC HEADACHE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; POSTTRAUMATIC HEADACHE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLDIER; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FRUCTOSE; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POST-TRAUMATIC HEADACHE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRYPTAMINES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958167839     PISSN: 00178748     EISSN: 15264610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.2011.01909.x     Document Type: Article

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