Cervicogenic headache: diagnostic criteria

Headache. 1990 Nov;30(11):725-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1526-4610.1990.hed3011725.x.

Abstract

Criteria for the diagnosis of cervicogenic headache are proposed, which include unilateral head pain, symptoms and signs of neck involvement, non-clustering episodic moderate pain originating in the neck then spreading to the head, and response to root or nerve blockade; plus rarer and non-obligatory features such as autonomic disturbances, dizziness, phonophotophobia, monocular visual blurring, and difficulty swallowing.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Cervical Vertebrae / physiopathology*
  • Headache / diagnosis*
  • Headache / physiopathology
  • Humans