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Management of Headache and Headache Medications, Second Edition
edited by Lawrence D. Robbins,
296 pp., New York, Springer, 2000, $49
This book is a clinician’s overview of the treatment of primary headache disorders, with all that an experienced clinician can bring to bear in the art of treatment. Dr. Larry Robbins is Assistant Professor of Neurology at Rush Medical College and directs a headache clinic outside Chicago.
The book opens with a brief chapter on migraine characteristics and pathophysiology, followed by sections on medications, hormones, and case studies of migraine, tension-type, cluster, and pediatric headache. There is a chapter on special headache topics, such as headache in the elderly, indomethacin-responsive syndromes, and organic pathology. Finally, there are 21 pages of references by chapter topic (the chapters are not footnoted), and six more appendices that are potentially useful in clinical care such as drug identification, clinical pearls, headache calendars, and herbs and vitamins.
The book is not an evidence-based medicine text. Rather, it gives Dr. Robbins’ own take on treatment; specifically, on clinical management of headache. Thus, he gives the reader his own first-line, second-line, and last resort type approaches …
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