Chronic pain disorders and headache chronification

It is estimated that nearly half of the global adult population suffers from an active headache disorder, most of whom experience attacks on an episodic basis. The transition from episodic to chronic headache is a poorly understood process. Epidemiological findings demonstrating comorbidity and comm...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Current pain and headache reports 2009-08, Vol.13 (4), p.308-313
Main Authors: McFate, Thomas, Scher, Ann I.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chronic Disease
Headache - classification
Headache - complications
Headache - epidemiology
Headaches
Humans
Internal Medicine
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Pain
Pain - classification
Pain - complications
Pain - epidemiology
Pain Medicine
Risk Factors
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:It is estimated that nearly half of the global adult population suffers from an active headache disorder, most of whom experience attacks on an episodic basis. The transition from episodic to chronic headache is a poorly understood process. Epidemiological findings demonstrating comorbidity and common risk factors suggest that headache progression or prognosis may be related to the presence of other chronic pain disorders. This review highlights findings from population-based studies on headache and other pain disorders and how they relate to each other, with a focus on understanding headache chronification. We also consider the limitations and methodological challenges in understanding how two different chronic pain disorders may be related.
ISSN:1531-3433
1534-3081
DOI:10.1007/s11916-009-0049-2