title: Non-pharmacological treatment of headaches--why?
abstract: Headache and mood disorders co-occur at significant rates. Two psychological techniques of proven effectiveness in treating headache are biofeedback and relaxation training. For treating the mood disorders that accompany chronic headache, cognitive-behavioral and pharmacological therapies are highly effective both individually and combined. The present article discusses the importance of treating anxiety-spectrum disorders as well as pain when treating headache, and of manipulating factors known to influence the probability of a patient's developing chronic pain and disability.
authors.affiliation: New York Headache Center, NY 10021, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Van Hook
mesh_terms: D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D005239:Fear / Q000502:physiology; D006261:Headache / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D059408:Pain Management; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D013577:Syndrome