The study will investigate the effect of pharmacological preventive treatment, education, physiotherapy and psychological counselling on the headache and associated symptoms in patients refered to the Danish Headache Center
Pharmacological interventions are candesartan, amitritylin and gabapentin depending on the headache phenotype. In total 3 visits spanned over 1 year Education is conducted as group sessions of up to 10 patients by two specialist nurses 2 x 90 min Physiotherapy is conducted as group sessions of up to 5 patients by physiotherapists 8 x 60 min plus 2 individual sessions. Psychology is conducted as group sessions of up to 10 patients by psychologist 3x60 min plus option of 1 individual session.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
58
Multdisciplinary approach
Danish Headache Center
Glostrup Municipality, Denmark
Change in headache days
Headache days will be obtained via a validated questionaire
Time frame: 1 year
Rivermead post-concussion questionare score
Rivermead is a validated questionaire to assess concussion symptoms
Time frame: 1 year
HADS-scores
HADS = Hospital anxiety and depression scale. A validated tool to assesss depression and anxiety symptoms
Time frame: 1 year
Self-perceived health
based on EU-SILC validated question on self-perceived health ('How is your health in general?'), which contains five answering categories; 1) very good, 2) good, 3) fair, 4) bad, 5) very bad.
Time frame: 1 year
Level of physical activity
Based on questionaire, where patients can choose: Low level of physical activity: primarily sedentary activities or light exercise at least 4 hours a week, or
Time frame: 1 year
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