Secondary Headache
Aims
The aims of the Secondary Headache Special Interest Group are to:
- promote research into secondary headache
- improve knowledge about secondary headaches among (general) neurologists, residents and primary care physicians (i.e. when, what and how to further investigate)
- to study the use of ICHD-3 for secondary headache and find ways to improve its use.
Members
Chair
Members
- Anish Bahra (UK)
- Thien Do (Denmark)
- Andreas Gantenbein (Switzerland)
- Oxana Grosu (Moldova)
- Espen Kristoffersen (Norway)
- Jakob Møller Hansen (Denmark)
- Marcio Nattan (Brazil)
- Maria Pilar Navarro Perez (Spain)
- Mark Obermann (Germany)
- Heiko Pohl (Switzerland)
- Marina Romozzi (Italy)
- Christoph Schankin (Germany)
- Alexandra Sinclair (UK)
Activities and news
The activities of SIG can be found in the annual reports. The SIG mainly operates as a study group and informal discussion forum, and provides input for teaching courses.
Secondary Headache Research Grants
2023 grants
Piyush Singh, Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, Delhi, India: Motor control assessment & training of deep neck extensor muscles in cervicogenic headache individuals
Asish Subedi, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal: Effect of altitude on postdural puncture headache after caesarean delivery: a prospective, multicentre cohort study
2022 grants
Wei Dai, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China: A longitudinal follow-up study of the patients with medication-overuse headache that completed baseline resting-state functional MRI