Category: Publication

  • Rethinking the root of chronic headaches

    Chronic headaches are a leading cause of health burden worldwide and are debilitating for people living with the condition. Pamela Blake, MD, Director of the Headache Center of River Oaks, and Carlton Perry, MD, River Oaks Plastic Surgery Center, are exploring the underlying cause of the condition in the hope of finding ways to provide…

  • Emerging evidence of occipital nerve compression in unremitting head and neck pain

    Summary: Below is the abstract of the above article which was published in 2019 in the Journal of Headache and Pain. This article is a review of the topic of occipital nerve compression headaches, the clinical presentation of the headaches, and a little about treatment options. The full article is available online. Link to article…

  • Tracking patients with chronic occipital headache after occipital nerve decompression surgery: A case series

    Below is the abstract of an article that reviewed the clinical outcomes of several patients who underwent nerve decompression surgery for nerve compression headache. Some patients did very well, and some did not experience relief. The article is available online. Link to article Background: The therapeutic benefit of nerve decompression surgeries for chronic headache/migraine are controversial.…

  • Extracranial origin of headache

    This review article summarizes the data that show that headaches can originate extracranially, and it aims to challenge the opinion-based notion that headaches must occur from intracranial (meaning inside the skull) pathology alone. The article is available online. Link to article Purpose of review: To summarize recent clinical and preclinical studies on extracranial pathophysiologies in migraine.…

  • Upregulation of inflammatory gene transcripts in periosteum of chronic migraineurs: Implications for extracranial origin of headache

    Below is the abstract of an article published in the Annals of Neurology in 2016. This research studied the difference in genes that are responsible for inflammation in the tissue on the surface of the skull in individuals with nerve compression headache compared to individuals who did not have headache. The subjects with chronic headache…