Nationally recognized specialists Alan M. Rapoport, MD and Fred D. Sheftell, MD -- founder of The New England Center for Headache -- give you convenient access to all of the information you need to handle headaches most effectively!

Headache Disorders: A Management Guide for Practitioners is a concise, practical reference that places the latest methods for diagnosis and treatment at your disposal. It provides you with cutting-edge guidelines for managing conditions ranging from the simpler forms of migraine to the complex, chronic daily headaches associated with medication overuse and co-morbid psychiatric symptoms.

Reviews of pathophysiology give you a state-of-the-art understanding of the possible sources of primary headache disorders. Advice on history taking and the physical examination, the interpretation of presenting symptoms, and the choice of tests facilities accurate diagnoses. And valuable recommendations help you to avoid common misdiagnoses...and spot the "red flags" that signal potential organic and dangerous causes of headache conditions.

Headache Disorders: A Management Guide for Practitioners presents practical, step-by-step protocols for treatment in emergency, primary care, and inpatient settings. It equips you with today's best phatmacologic and non-phatmacologic therapeutic measures...helpful tips on securing patient compliance...and biological, psychological, and behavioral explanations of the psychatric conditions that can cause or contribute to headache problems. Case presentations illustrate important concepts, and suggestions for the use of calendars make it easier for you to log and track patient complaints.