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Table 3 Contact and treatment pattern in relation to secondary headache diagnoses

From: Management of secondary chronic headache in the general population: the Akershus study of chronic headache

 

CPTH without medication overuse (N = 25)

CPTH with medication overuse (N = 22)

All CPTH (N = 47)

CEH without medication overuse (N = 12)

CEH with medication overuse (N = 12)

All CEH (N = 24)

HACRS without medication overuse (N = 22)

HACRS with medication overuse (N = 24)

All HACRS (N = 46)

Other secondary chronic headache without medication overuse (N = 8)

Other secondary chronic headache with medication overuse (N = 1)

All Other secondary chronic headache (N = 9)

All secondary chronic headaches without medication overuse (N = 58)

All secondary chronic headaches with medication overuse (N = 55)

All secondary chronic headaches (N = 113)

 

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

%( n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

% (n)

Contact level

None

28 (7)

18 (4)

23 (11)

42 (5)

25 (3)

33 (8)

36 (8)

17 (4)

26 (12)

63 (5)

0 (0)

56 (5)

41 (24)

18 (10)

30 (34)

Primary

72 (18)

82 (18)

77 (36)

58 (7)

75 (9)

67 (16)

64 (14)

83 (20)

74 (34)

38 (3)

100 (1)

44 (4)

59 (34)

82 (45)

70 (79)

Secondary

40 (10)

59 (13)

49 (23)

8 (1)

50 (6)

29 (7)

27 (6)

29 (7)

28 (13)

0 (0)

100 (1)

11 (1)

28 (16)

44 (24)

35 (40)

Tertiary

8 (2)

5 (1)

6 (3)

0 (0)

8 (1)

4 (1)

5 (1)

4 (1)

4 (2)

0 (0)

100 (1)

11 (1)

5 (3)

5 (3)

5 (6)

Complementary and alternative medicine

Acupuncture

52 (13)

55 (12)

53 (25)

58 (7)

33 (4)

46 (11)

36 (8)

38 (9)

37 (17)

13 (1)

0 (0)

11 (1)

41 (24)

42 (23)

42 (47)

Chiropractic

40 (10)

59 (13)

49 (23)

33 (4)

33 (4)

33 (8)

27 (6)

33 (8)

30 (14)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

29 (17)

42 (23)

35 (40)

Homeopathy

12 (3)

23 (5)

17 (8)

25 (3)

8 (1)

17 (4)

14 (3)

17 (4)

15 (7)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

12 (7)

16 (9)

14 (16)

Naprapathy

4 (1)

9 (2)

6 (3)

0 (0)

8 (1)

4 (1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

2 (1)

4 (2)

3 (3)

Physiotherapy

72 (18)

100 (22)

85 (40)

75 (9)

75 (9)

75 (18)

36 (8)

58 (14)

48 (22)

25 (2)

100 (1)

33 (3)

52 (30)

76 (42)

64 (72)

Psychologist

4 (1)

0 (0)

2 (1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

5 (1)

8 (2)

7 (3)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

2 (1)

4 (2)

2 (2)

Psychomotor physiotherapy

4 (1)

5 (1)

4 (2)

0 (0)

8 (1)

4 (1)

0 (0)

4 (1)

2 (1)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

2 (1)

5 (3)

4 (4)

Any CAM

76 (19)

100 (22)

87 (41)

75 (9)

83 (10)

79 (19)

64 (14)

67 (16)

65 (30)

25 (2)

100 (1)

33 (3)

64 (37)

82 (45)

73 (82)

Medication use

Acute medication

68 (17)

100 (22)

83 (39)

75 (9)

100 (12)

88 (21)

82 (18)

100 (24)

91 (42)

50 (4)

100 (1)

56 (5)

69 (40)

100 (55)

84 (95)

Prophylactic medication

16 (4)

14 (3)

15 (7)

8 (1)

17 (2)

13 (3)

5 (1)

13 (3)

9 (4)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

9 (5)

13 (7)

11 (12)

  1. CPTH Chronic post-traumatic headache; CEH Cervicogenic headache; HACRS Headache attributed to chronic rhinosinusitis.
  2. The diagnoses are not mutually exclusive, i.e. one person can have two or more headache diagnoses.