Principles & Practice of Pain Medicine > Part IV. Pain by Anatomic Location > A. Head and Neck > Chapter 21. Refractory Headaches Elizabeth Loder

Background

"With appropriate diagnosis and treatment, the majority of headache sufferers can look forward to improved management (although not elimination) of their headaches. There remains, however, a group of patients whose headaches do not improve with treatment as expected. In addition to the pain of inadequately relieved headache, these patients are at risk of developing chronic pain syndrome, a condition characterized by significant disability, medication dependence and overuse, depression, and worsening headache...."