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Clinician’s Guide to Headache

Head, Neck, and Face Pain Syndromes

  • 1st Edition - September 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Pravin Thomas
  • Language: English

Clinician’s Guide to Headache: Head, Neck, and Face Pain Syndromes is a clinically focused, case-based reference for neurologists, headache specialists, pain physicians, tra… Read more

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Description

Clinician’s Guide to Headache: Head, Neck, and Face Pain Syndromes is a clinically focused, case-based reference for neurologists, headache specialists, pain physicians, trainees, and allied clinicians caring for patients with head, neck, and facial pain. Rather than relying only on conventional disease-based descriptions, it reflects the realities of everyday practice: complex and overlapping syndromes, diagnostic uncertainty, secondary causes, comorbidities, and rapidly changing therapeutic options.

Organized around real clinical scenarios, the book covers the full breadth of headache medicine, from classification, anatomy, history taking, examination, and pathophysiology to migraine, trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias, cranial neuralgias, CSF pressure disorders, neurovascular and inflammatory diseases, infections, metabolic causes, epilepsy-related headache, sleep-related disorders, ophthalmic presentations, pediatric headache, neck pain, and facial pain. Foundational sciences, such as anatomy, neuroradiology, pharmacology, and pathophysiology, are presented in a practical, case-oriented manner to support bedside decision-making.

The text also addresses the important frontiers in modern headache care, biologics, percutaneous interventions, implantable and noninvasive neuromodulation, and integrative strategies, such as yoga, meditation, and nutrition.

With contributions from an international faculty, this volume provides a pragmatic, modern, and multidisciplinary approach to one of the most challenging areas in clinical neuroscience

Key features

  • Provides a practical reference on head, neck, and face pain syndromes for clinicians in headache practice setting
  • Features content on treatment methods including biologics and neuromodulation
  • Discusses the clinical implications of headache in a variety of concurrent conditions and populations
  • Covers the diagnosis and management of a variety of headache types, as well as head, neck, and face pain syndromes

Readership

Neurologists, clinicians headache specialists neuroscientists, Text-reference for students interested in the above disciplines

Table of contents

1 Classification of head, neck and face pain: Toward a mechanism and biomarker based pragmatic model

2 History and clinical examination of a patient with headache and facial pain

3 Head and neck anatomy through clinical cases

4 The pathophysiology of migraine

5 Migraine and migraine-like headaches

6 Medication overuse headaches

7 Headaches with autonomic dysfunction

8 Neuralgic headaches

9 Headache associated with CSF dysregulation

10 Headaches-associated CNS and systemic infections

11 Headaches with metabolic derangement

12 Headache in neurological and systemic inflammatory diseases

13 Headaches in neurovascular disorders

14 Approach to a patient with neck pain

15 Approach to a patient with facial pain

16 Headache and epilepsy

17 Headache with cognitive and behavioral impairment

18 Headache with ophthalmic involvement

19 Headache and sleep

20 Headache and children

21 Neuroradiology through clinical cases of headache

22 Pharmacology through clinical cases

23 Management of explosive and worst ever headaches

24 Percutaneous treatments and implantable neuromodulation

25 Intervention and modulation part II: Neuromodulation for headaches and facial pains

26 Yoga and meditation for headaches

27 Nutrition and headache

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: September 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editor

PT

Pravin Thomas

Dr. Thomas is a Neurologist and Headache Specialist and Honorary Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Queen Square Institute of Neurology at the University College London. The Chairman of the World Headache Society, he is a board-certified neurologist and Founder, Trustee, & Treasurer of the Asia Pacific Headache Society. He is a Consultant Neurologist and Lead of Headache Medicine in Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust. Dr. Thomas is a reviewer for Headache, the official journal of the American Headache Society and the Chief of the Headache Section of the Journal on Recent Advances in Pain. He has more than 20 years’ experience treating patients with headache and is a board-certified neurologist and completed his clinical fellowship in headache.
Affiliations and expertise
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK