Research Catalog

Title

Whiplash and related headaches / Bernard Swerdlow.

Author

Swerdlow, Bernard

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

1083 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Explore the physical reasons for continued pain caused by whiplash and related head trauma, which affects an estimated 7 to 12 million Americans each year and costs the U.S. approximately $20 billion annually in lost work days and medical and legal expenses. The author, one of the foremost headache specialists in the U.S., addresses difficult and complex issues in language and format readily understandable even to those not fundamentally grounded in the sciences.

Subject

• Headache > Etiology
• Whiplash injuries
• Head > Wounds and injuries > Complications
• Headache > etiology
• Headache > diagnosis
• Headache > psychology
• Whiplash Injuries > complications
• Craniocerebral Trauma > complications
• Craniocerebral Trauma > psychology
• Jurisprudence

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. An Old Problem -- Ch. 2. Classification of Headaches -- Ch. 3. Theories of Head Pain (Why Does Your Head Hurt?) -- Ch. 4. The Headache Intake Form -- Ch. 5. Muscle Contraction (Tension) Headache -- Ch. 6. Migraine -- Ch. 7. Chronic Daily Headaches -- Ch. 8. Cluster Headache -- Ch. 9. Sinus Headache -- Ch. 10. Other Causes of Headaches -- Ch. 11. Headaches in Children -- Ch. 12. How to Diagnose Headaches -- Ch. 13. Post Traumatic Headache Syndrome -- Ch. 14. Cervical Acceleration/Deceleration Syndrome (Whiplash) -- Ch. 15. Biomechanics of Whiplash (Cervical Acceleration/Deceleration Syndrome) -- Ch. 16. Anatomy of the Neck and Head -- Ch. 17. Injuries to the Muscles, Tendons, and Ligaments of the Head and Neck -- Ch. 18. Injury to the Temporomandibular Joint / Thomas P. Hand -- Ch. 19. A Newer Concept - The Cervicogenic Headache -- Ch. 20. Introduction to Neuropsychology / John N. I. Dieter --
• Ch. 21. Neuropsychology of Minor Head Injury / John N. I. Dieter -- Ch. 22. Psychiatric Considerations of the Post Traumatic Patient: Malingering, Factitious Illness, and Other Confusing Diagnoses -- Ch. 23. Problems in the Courtroom: The Lawyer's Viewpoint / Don McKeever -- Ch. 24. Examination of the Patient -- Ch. 25. Headache Treatments -- Ch. 26. Long-Term Outlook for the Whiplash Patient.

ISBN

1574442325 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98041106

OCLC

• 39764058
• ocm39764058
• SCSB-4786364

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries