Pericranial Tenderness is Not Related to Nummular Headache
| Autor: | JA Pareja, César Fernández-de-las-Peñas, FJ Barriga, María L. Cuadrado |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Pain Threshold musculoskeletal diseases Chronic tension-type headache 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neck Muscles medicine Humans 030212 general & internal medicine Pain Measurement Neck Pain business.industry Headache Healthy subjects General Medicine Middle Aged humanities Tenderness Anesthesia Female Neurology (clinical) medicine.symptom business Head 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Cephalalgia. 27:182-186 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2982 0333-1024 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1468-2982.2007.01253.x |
| Popis: | The aim of the present study was to investigate whether nummular headache (NH) patients show increased pericranial tenderness in relation to healthy subjects, and to compare pericranial tenderness between both NH and chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) patients. Three tenderness (total, cephalic and neck) scores were objectively and blinded assessed in 10 NH patients, 10 CTTH subjects and 10 healthy matched controls. No significant differences were found in any tenderness score between the symptomatic and non-symptomatic sides in NH, or between right and left sides in either CTTH or control groups. All tenderness scores were significantly greater in CTTH patients compared with both NH patients and controls ( P < 0.001), but not significantly different between NH patients and controls. Therefore, NH patients had lower tenderness than patients with CTTH and did not show increased tenderness when compared with healthy subjects. In addition, tenderness in NH patients was quite symmetrical between both the symptomatic and the non-symptomatic sides. The absence of increased pericranial tenderness could be clinically useful in distinguishing NH from CTTH. Current findings expand the evidence supporting the notion that NH is a non-generalized and rather limited disorder, marking the presence of a well-delimited painful zone. |
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