J Korean Pain Soc.
1994 May;7(1):88-91.
Experience of Two Types of Headache: Episodic tension-type headache and benign exertional headache
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Pain, Dr. Kim's Pain Clinic, Cheong-Ju, Korea.
- 2Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Dr. Kim's Pain Clinic, Cheong-Ju, Korea.
Abstract
- Headache, like low back pain, is one of the most common of pain conditions. Many data suggest that nerve block can be one of effective treatments in managing headache except pure psychologic or surgical origin, because mechanism of headaches have neurologic, vascular or local tissue pathology. We experienced two types of headache; episodic tension-type headache, and benign exertional headache, suceessful treatment consist of nerve block and modulation of exercise, respectively.