Whiplash and Related Headaches

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This book explains the physical reasons for continued pain caused by whiplash and related head trauma. The author, one of the foremost headache specialists in the U.S., addresses difficult and complex issues in language and format readily understandable even to those not fundamentally grounded in the sciences. This is a useful handbook for the medical and legal professions, the insurance industry, the headache sufferer, and anyone with a curiosity about headaches and why such headaches can totally disrupt the quality of life in some patients, at times even to the point of total incapacitation TOC:An Old Problem. Classification of Headaches. Theories of Head Pain (Why Does Your Head Hurt?). The Headache Intake Form. Tension Type Headache. Migraine. Daily Chronic Headache. Cluster Headache. Sinus Headache. Other Conditions Causing Headaches. Headaches in Children. How to Diagnose Headaches. Post Traumatic Headache Syndrome. Whiplash (Cervical Acceleration/Deceleration Syndrome CAD). Biomechanics of Whiplash (CAD). Anatomy of the Head and Neck. Injuries to the Head and Neck Anatomy Causing Headache. Injury to the Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ). A Newer Concept, The Cervicogenic Headache. Introduction to Neuropsychology. Neuropsychology of Minor Head Injury. Psychiatric Considerations of Post Traumatic Patients: Malingering, Factitious Illness, and Other Confusing Diagnoses. Problems in the Courtroom: The Lawyers Viewpoint. Examination of the Patient. Headache Treatments. Long Term Outlook for the Whiplash Patient.