Cervicogenic Headache Diagnosis And Treatment Progress

HHeadache as a common clinical symptom, has been concerned of experts and scholars at home and abroad. In recent decades, the incidence of cervical disease increased year by year, and there is the trend of younger. A large number of scholars in the practicing and researching found that the neck disease can also lead to headache. The cervicogenic headache is gradually being more and more recognized by experts and scholars. In 1990 the International Headache Society(HIS) promulgated the criteria for the classification of cervicogenic headache. Due to it,s complex and diverse clinical manifestations,atypical signs,and the lack of positive imaging evidence,the absence of a recognized standards on the diagnosis and treatment,so it is still easily to be misdiagnosed or ignored in the clinical practice. At present,the cervicogenic headache on basic research and clinical studies are constantly in depth. With the experiences and diagnosis, the effective treatments of cervicogenic headache are improve gradually, which will be effective in reducing the patients pain.