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Bates Physical Examination
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1. One of the most common
Headache
symp- toms in clinical
practice, with a life-time
prevalence on 30%.

2. Primary Headaches Migraine, tension, cluster, and chronic daily HA

3. Secondary Headaches Arise from underlying structural systemic or
infectious
causes such as meningitis or subarachnoid
hemor- rhage.

4. Three most important severity, chronologic pattern and associated
attributes of headache symp- toms.

5. Reaches maximal intensity over sev- Thunderclap Headaches
eral minutes, occurs in 70% of
pa- tients with subarachnoid
hemor- rhage and are often
preceded by a sentinel leak HA
from a vascular leak into the
subarachnoid space

6. If a HA is sudden onset and Subarachnoid hemorrhage or meningitis
severe. What should you
consider?

7. Where do unilateral HA occur? In migraines/tension in the temporal areas and
cluster
maybe retro-orbital.

8. Valsalva maneuvers and 9. Valsalva and lying down
lean- ing forward may may in- crease pain from ?
increase pain from .
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Acute sinusitis
Mass lesions due to changing intracranial
pressure.

10. True




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