The Korean Journal of Pain
- Volume 8 Issue 2
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- Pages.272-278
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- 1995
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- 2005-9159(pISSN)
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- 2093-0569(eISSN)
The Effect of Trigger Point Injection and $C_2$ -ganglion Block for the Patients with Chronic Headache
만성두통환자 치료에 통증유발점 치료 및 제 2 경추신경절 차단술의 효과
- Song, Chan-Woo (Neuropain Clinic, Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Inje University) ;
- Kim, Jung-Won (Neuropain Clinic, Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Inje University)
- Published : 1995.11.25
Abstract
Headache is a common disease of the general population. But the main problem in any study of headache has been that of defining the disease entities. In 1988, the Headache Classification committee of the International Headache Society introduced operational diagnostic criteria for all headache disorders into 13 major group; migraine, tension-type headache, cluster headache and chronic paroxysmal hemicrania etc. Sjaastad was the first to describe "cervicogenic headache", one of various head pain syndromes that probably originate in the cervical spine. Between March 1995 and June 1995, we studied 78 out-patients of the Department of Neuro pain clinic, Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje university. We divided the patients into three study group: Fifty-three patients with tension-type headache, 13 with cervicogenic headache, and 12 with migraine headache. The reponse of trigger point injection and