Current pain and headache reports
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Curr Pain Headache Rep · Dec 2009
ReviewAdvances in the pathophysiology of tension-type headache: from stress to central sensitization.
Tension-type headache (TTH) is the most common and most socioeconomically costly headache. Yet our knowledge regarding TTH pathophysiological mechanisms is still in its early stages. ⋯ The conversion from ETTH to CTTH is most relevant to the clinician and the patient, as CTTH is the most debilitating. This paper focuses and summarizes our current understanding of central sensitization, the process by which this conversion occurs in TTH, and proposes an integrated model to explain how ETTH progresses into CTTH in genetically susceptible individuals.
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Curr Pain Headache Rep · Dec 2009
Randomized Controlled TrialMemantine for the prophylaxis of chronic tension-type headache.
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Curr Pain Headache Rep · Dec 2009
Randomized Controlled TrialPregabalin as treatment for fibromyalgia: the rest of the story?