Title: Medication-overuse headache (MOH) post concussion<br/>Author: Brian Corwell<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/294/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p>
<strong>Medication-overuse headache</strong> (MOH) is one of the most common chronic headache disorders</p>
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Worldwide prevalence of 1–2%</p>
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Characterized by chronic headache and overuse of different headache medications</p>
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Withdrawal of the overused medication is the treatment of choice</p>
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A 2014 study looked at adolescent patients treated in a headache clinic with chronic post traumatic headaches (concussion headaches)</p>
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– 77 had chronic post-traumatic headache of 3-12 months' duration</p>
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– 54 of 77 (70.1%) met criteria for probable medication-overuse headache.</p>
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– <strong>After the OTC medicine was stopped 68.5% had resolution or improvement !!</strong></p>
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Excessive use of analgesics postconcussion may contribute to chronic post-traumatic headaches in some adolescents. </p>
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Sometimes the advise of "just keep taking the motrin and it'll get better" isnt the answer</p>
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Heyer et al., 2014 Pediatric Neurology</p>
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