- Discusses the most effective treatments for certain types of headache
- Provides practical guidance on the necessary tools available in practice and how to use them through videos and illustrations
- Informs headache practitioners on the different options and applications of promising interventional procedures
This book discusses interventional treatment options on intractable (drug resistant) headache patients and extended headache attacks and extensively reviews the reasons behind treatment failure in intractable headaches, offering potential solutions based on clinical black holes of headache outpatient practice. The most appropriate interventions for certain types of headache such as chronic migraine and medication-overuse headaches, are discussed among others.
The book provides practical advice on properly administering the interventional treatments either as a bridge treatments or prophylaxis options. The expected complications of the treatments, and strategies to minimize them are also discussed. Approaches in special patient populations such as pediatric or pregnancy cases and other non-standard cases are also extensively discussed.
Table of Contents- Introduction to interventional procedures; Timing and Patient selection.-
- Headache anatomy and mechanisms of peripheral nerve interventions.-
- Pharmacology of Interventional Headache Management.-
- GON and LON blockages.-
- The role of other peripheral nerve blockages.-
- BOTOX on the refractory headache disorders.-
- The role of interventional procedures in childhood and adolescent headaches.-
- Interventional headache management in elderly.-
- Interventional headache management in pregnancy and lactation.-
- Efficacy of trigger point injections and dry needling.-
- Potential role of acupuncture.-
- The role of radiofrequency thermo coagulation.-
- The potential role of ozone therapy.-
- Peripheral neuromodulation on the refractory headache disorders.-
- Prologue- Aynur Özge, Hayrunnisa Bolay.- Appendix.- Videos.- Glossary
