Invasive Therapy for Cervicogenic Headache

niversity Hospital Maastricht, Pain Centre (The Netherlands)0 个研究点目标入组 30 人开始时间: 2005年8月10日最近更新: 2015年1月13日

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•The study group was recruited from patients with cervicogenic headache (CH) according to the diagnostic criteria of Sjaastad. The other following inclusion criteria had to be fulfilled:
•1. Age between 20 and 65 years; chronic cervicogenic headache of more than 2 years' duration
•2. An initial visual analogue scale (VAS) score of more than 50 mm during a pain period
•3. A significant pain during at least two days per week
•4. At least one of the following symptoms on physical examination of the neck: paravertebral tenderness on palpation of the cervical spine and/or positive tender points at specific points indicating the involvement of segmental nerves and/or reduction of range of motion in the cervical spine

•Excluded from the study were patients who had previous surgical procedures of the cervical spine; who had coagulation disturbances; who were pregnant; who had multilevel severe degenerative changes; who were diagnosed with post-whiplash syndrome and in whom none of the symptoms on physical examination described above were present.

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niversity Hospital Maastricht, Pain Centre (The Netherlands)