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Headaches: Breaking the pain cycle with a behavioral rehabilitation model of treatment
Author(s) -
Pelletier Heather
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30210
Subject(s) - headaches , rehabilitation , medicine , meaning (existential) , physical therapy , psychology , psychotherapist , psychiatry
Headache is one of the most common complaints of children and adolescents. Although annoying and inconvenient, most headache pain resolves with rest, hydration, or aspirin. For some, however, headache pain can persist and even become intractable, meaning that it is difficult to treat or fails to respond to standard headache treatments.