Conditions We Treat

Program candidates include any child or teen who:

• Has headaches that occur on a consistent basis
• Has headaches that result in missed school days or other activities
• Has headaches that cause concern for the patient, parents, or primary care physician in any way

Please see migraine without aura for more information.

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Chronic migraine describes headache which is occurring on 15 or more days per month, of which at least 8 of the headache days have features of migraine, for at least 3 months.

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Cyclic vomiting is a disorder in which a person has periods of vomiting that can last anywhere from a few hours to several days.

Any type of pain in the head, neck, and face can be classified as a headache.

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Please see migraine with aura for more information.

A medication overuse headache is typically superimposed on another type of primary headache disorder, such as migraine or tension type headache.

Migraine with aura describes a migraine with a visual disturbance or tingling sensation, which can occur more before or during a migraine.

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Migraine without aura is more common, and indicates that there are no associated focal neurologic symptoms either before or with the headache.

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Please see nerve injuries for more information.

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Primary stabbing headache tends to occur in patients with a family history of migraines.

Pseudotumor cerebri is a condition characterized by headaches and visual disturbances without an underlying brain tumor.

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Patients with tension type headache may have an increased sensitivity to pain.

• Migraine without aura
• Migraine with aura
• New daily persistent headache
• Pseudotumor cerebri (Idiopathic Intracranial hypertension)
• Hemiplegic migraine
• Migraine with brainstem aura
• Occipital neuralgia
• Cervicogenic headache
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Cyclical vomiting syndrome
• Abdominal migraine
• Benign paroxysmal vertigo
• Benign paroxysmal torticollis
• Hemicrania continua
• Paroxysmal hemicrania
• Cluster headache
• Short lasting unilateral neuralgiform headaches (SUNCT, SUNA)
• Primary cough headache
• Primary exercise headache