Sunday, March 25, 2012

Daily headaches common in soldiers after concussion

(Reuters) - One in five soldiers who return from Iraq or Afghanistan having suffered a concussion develop chronic headaches that occur at least half the days of the month, with many suffering even more, according to a U.S. survey. Army researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Headache, examined nearly 1,000 soldiers with a history of deployment-related concussion and found 20 percent had suffered frequent headaches diagnosed as "chronic daily headache" for three months or more. Of those, a quarter had the headaches every day. ... Click here to read the rest

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