FP Essentials™
Headache
Edition #473 | October 2018
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In This Edition
- Diagnose patients with migraine and migraine with aura.
- Recommend abortive treatment and prophylaxis for migraine, including trigger avoidance, pharmacotherapy, and integrative medicine therapies.
- Identify risk factors for tension-type headache and medication overuse headache.
- Recommend abortive treatment and prophylaxis for tension-type headache, including integrative medicine therapies.
- Evaluate patients with severe acute headaches in the ambulatory setting.
- Describe the conditions that cause headache emergencies.
- Identify risk factors for posttraumatic headache (PTHA) and diagnose patients with PTHA.
- Diagnose patients with acute, subacute, and persistent PTHA and approve return of athletes to play when appropriate.
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October 2018
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