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Systematic Reviews of Treatments for Headaches
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for headaches.
Reviewed August 2011
10 Resources Found
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| Title: | Drugs for treating headache after a lumbar puncture |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Lumbar puncture is an invasive procedure by which medical personnel try to get a sample of cerebrospinal fluid though a needle inserted into the lower lumbar area for diagnostic purposes (i.e. meningitis or subarachnoid haemorrhage). It is also used to... |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Triptans for acute cluster headache |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The triptans are a class of drugs used to treat cluster headaches. They can be administered orally, nasally or by subcutaneous injection. This review found that sumatriptan administered subcutaneously and zolmitriptan taken intranasally, in particular, ... |
| Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Title: | Epidural blood patching for preventing and treating post-dural puncture headache |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The role of epidural blood patching in the prevention or treatment of the headache that may follow dural puncture (usually lumbar puncture) is inconclusive. Dural puncture involves passing a needle into the fluid-filled space around the spinal cord and ... |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Psychological therapies for the management of chronic and recurrent pain in children and adolescents |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Psychological therapies (relaxation, hypnosis, coping skills training, biofeedback, cognitive behavioural therapy) are treatments which may help people manage pain and its disabling consequences. For children and youths there is good evidence that both ... |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Interventions for idiopathic intracranial hypertension |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Idiopathic intracranial hypertension is a condition in which there is increased pressure inside the head without any obvious cause. This generally results in swelling of the optic disc (the point where the optic nerve meets the eye). The swelling in tur... |
| Date: | Dec 2008 |
| Title: | Acupuncture for tension-type headache |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Patients with tension-type headache suffer from episodes of pain which is typically bilateral (affects both sides of the head), pressing or tightening in quality, mild to moderate in intensity, and which does not worsen with routine physical activity. I... |
| Date: | Apr 2008 |
| Title: | Dipyrone for the treatment of headaches |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Dipyrone is a popular medicine used to treat headaches in many countries, but it is not available in others (particularly the USA and UK) because of its association with potentially life-threatening blood disorders such as agranulocytosis. This review i... |
| Date: | Dec 2004 |
| Title: | Exercises for mechanical neck disorders |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Neck pain is common, it limits function and is costly. Exercise therapy is a widely used treatment for neck pain. There appears to be a role for exercises in the treatment of neck pain. There is limited evidence of benefit for strengthening, stretching ... |
| Date: | Mar 2004 |
| Title: | Non-invasive physical treatments for chronic/recurrent headaches |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Various physical treatments are often used instead of, or in addition to, medications to treat headaches. Evidence from controlled trials suggests that several non-invasive physical treatments may help prevent chronic/recurrent headaches. Spinal manipul... |
| Date: | Nov 2002 |
| Title: | Posture and fluids for preventing post-dural puncture headache |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Routine bed rest after dural puncture does not prevent the headache that may follow this procedure, but any role for fluid supplements remains unclear. Dural (usually lumbar) puncture involves passing a needle into the fluid-filled space around the spin... |
| Date: | Feb 2002 |
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