Traumatic brain injury(TBI) results in many deficits that prevent returning to a previous level of daily living and working. The headaches are commonly remained as disability in which traumatic brain injured patients whether the degrees of injury
were
severe as well as mild. We reviewed headaches in total 87 patients with TBI according to variables such as presence, natures, area distribution, duration of headaches, and associated injury, respectively.
Subjects had no past history of headaches, no systemic diseases, and no evidences of cranial and intracranial injuries at plain skull series and brain CT scan which were done after TBI.
The incidence of headache was 75.9%(n=66). Male were thirty eight(43.7%) and female were twenty eight(32.2%). The duration of headache was less than 1 month after TBI in fourty nine(74.2%). The natures of headache were dull and throbbing in fifty
six(84.8%). The head injury sites were in accordance with the headache sites n 34.8%. The head injuries were commonly associated with cervical, shoulder, and/or facial injuries. On the basis of this study we propose that head injury frequently
results
in headache, particularly when no apparent structural traumatic lesion is demonstrable.
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