{"title":"Non-pharmacological treatment of headaches--why?","authors":"E Van Hook","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Headache and mood disorders co-occur at significant rates. Two psychological techniques of proven effectiveness in treating headache are biofeedback and relaxation training. For treating the mood disorders that accompany chronic headache, cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological therapies are highly effective both individually and combined. The present article discusses the importance of treating anxiety-spectrum disorders as well as pain when treating headache, and of manipulating factors known to influence the probability of a patient's developing chronic pain and disability.</p>","PeriodicalId":79395,"journal":{"name":"Clinical neuroscience (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"5 1","pages":"43-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Clinical neuroscience (New York, N.Y.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Headache and mood disorders co-occur at significant rates. Two psychological techniques of proven effectiveness in treating headache are biofeedback and relaxation training. For treating the mood disorders that accompany chronic headache, cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological therapies are highly effective both individually and combined. The present article discusses the importance of treating anxiety-spectrum disorders as well as pain when treating headache, and of manipulating factors known to influence the probability of a patient's developing chronic pain and disability.