Summary

A clinical text, this offers coverage of the causes, mechanisms, and treatment of headache and facial pain. This account provides the practitioner with information on this topic and advice on patient treatment. Special attention is given to a hypothesis regarding the mechanism of headache in general, and migraine in particular - the proposed mechanism helping the physician treat patients in a more effective, practical fashion. It also contains a chapter focusing on facial pain, written in a differential context to aid physicians in unravelling this problems.