The organizations of specialized medical care for patients with headache

Abstract

Primary headaches are common diseases in the clinical practice. Affecting the active, able-bodied population, impairing the quality of life and causing social maladjustment, they are of immense social significance. The medical care for patients with headaches ought to be complex and include a patients educational program, rational pharmaceutical therapy, detection and correction of comorbid functional disorders, nonpharmaceutical therapy. Despite an adequate therapy, the treatment satisfaction remains low and stimulates development of individualized treatment algorithms, that take into account the patients personal characteristics. They should be applicable both for the self treatment and for the use in the neurological and general practice.

Keywords

• chronic headache
• chronic migraine
• complex treatment
• multidisciplinary treatment approach
• psychiatric comorbidities