by Sue Robbins | Oct 27, 2020 | Children's Pain, Miscellaneous
In a new report on pediatric pain in the British medical journal The Lancet, a commission of experts, including scientists, doctors, psychologists, parents and patients, challenged those who take care of children to end what they described as the common...
by Sue Robbins | Jul 15, 2020 | Migraine
Compared with healthy control participants, pediatric patients with chronic migraine (CM) report a higher rate of depression, according to study findings published in Pediatric Neurology. Researchers suggested that clinicians should consider including therapy in...
by Sue Robbins | Jun 17, 2020 | Migraine
Migraine is highly prevalent in the pediatric population, with findings from population-based studies indicating rates of 7.7%–9.1% among children and adolescents. 1 Sleep disorders are also frequently observed in these groups and represent a common comorbidity in...
by Sue Robbins | Jan 12, 2020 | Adolescents and Children
Children and adolescents without a history of headache may develop prolonged headaches after sustaining a concussion, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Child Neurology Society. The headache may be migraine, chronic daily headache,...
by Sue Robbins | Nov 2, 2019 | Migraine
A significant proportion of children who present to headache clinics have joint hypermobility, according to data presented at the 48th national meeting of the Child Neurology Society. Furthermore, patients with joint hypermobility have a high rate of headache...
