Sensory hypersensitivities are associated with post-traumatic headache-related disability.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether sensory hypersensitivity contributes to headache-related disability in a secondary analysis of patients with post-traumatic headache.

Background

Up to one-third of individuals with traumatic brain injuries report persistent headache 3 months post-injury. High rates of allodynia and photophobia have been observed in clinical studies and animal models of post-traumatic headache, but we do not fully understand how sensory amplifications impact post-traumatic headache-related disability.

Methods

We identified a cross-sectional sample of patients from the American Registry for Migraine Research database with new or worsening headaches post-head injury from 2016 to 2020 and performed a secondary analysis of those data. We modeled the relationshi

SUBMITTER: Martindale C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10854013 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature