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Commentary -Examining The Upper Cervical Spine

Examining the Upper Cervical Spine

In Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias It is refreshing to come across a case study which supports my clinical experience. This study1 describes a woman with a cluster-like pattern of presumably [R] side-locked face and neck pain with associated periorbital and mandibular swelling, tearing, conjunctival injection, and allodynia which was ameliorated by third occipital nerve lesioning –

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Commentary - Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias

Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias

Questions and Answers Q: Of the primary headache types are there some that are more difficult to treat than others? A: Probably the Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgia (TACs). The underlying disorder in the TACs is a sensitised brain stem.  The way to determine the relevancy of cervical afferents in headache, Migraine or TAC presentations is reproduction

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