Therapeutic Patient Education as Part of the Physiotherapy Management of Adults with Headache: A Scoping Review

• Published in: Current pain and headache reports Vol. 28; no. 7; pp. 547 - 564
• Main Authors: Mingels, Sarah, Granitzer, Marita, Luedtke, Kerstin, Dankaerts, Wim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.07.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Clinical trials; Headache; Headache (D Buse; Headache - therapy; Headaches; Humans; Internal Medicine; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Migraine; Non-pharmacologic Aspects of Pain; Pain Medicine; Patient education; Patient Education as Topic - methods; Physical therapy; Physical Therapy Modalities; Section Editor; Topical Collection on Non-pharmacologic Aspects of Pain; Headache; Management; Education; Physiotherapy

Purpose of Review Physiotherapy interventions for headache mostly include exercise and manual therapy. Yet, the complex nature of headache, sometimes characterized by symptoms of facilitated central pain mechanisms, demands an individualized approach in which therapeutic patient education could be s...