Headache

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• 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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Foreword
Migraine
Tension-Type Headache
Headache Emergencies
Posttraumatic Headache

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