title: Headache in sports.
abstract: Sports- and exercise-related headaches are not unusual. Despite their frequent occurrence in this context, there are little epidemiologic data concerning sports-related headache. The recent attention of concussive injuries and associated post-traumatic headache has renewed interest in the study of those headaches occurring after head trauma; however, any primary headache type can also occur in the setting of contact and/or collision sports. The nonspecific nature of headaches provides unique challenges to clinicians encountering this complaint. It is, therefore, imperative that physicians treating athletes are able to distinguish the various headache types and presentations often seen in this population.
authors.affiliation: Sports Concussion Program, Norton Healthcare, Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky, NCAA Headache Task Force, 3991 Dutchmans Lane, Suite 310, Louisville, KY, 40207, USA, tad.seifert@nortonhealthcare.org.
authors.forename: Tad
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seifert
mesh_terms: D003075:Coitus; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D015444:Exercise; D051270:Headache Disorders, Primary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D051271:Headache Disorders, Secondary / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D051298:Post-Traumatic Headache / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013177:Sports
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