Clinician’s Guide to Headache

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.

1. Classification of Head, Neck and Face Pain: Towards a mechanism- and biomarker-based pragmatic model
2. History and clinical examination in a patient with headache and facial pain
3. Head and neck anatomy through clinical cases
4. Pathophysiology through clinical cases
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. Headaches in neuro and systemic inflammatory diseases
13. Headaches in neurovascular disorders
14. Approach to a patient with neck pain
15. Approach to a patient with face 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
22. Pharmacology through clinical cases
23. Management of explosive and worst ever headahces
24. Interventional Headache Medicine
25. Yoga, acupuncture, meditation and other alternative therapies for headaches
26. Nutrition and Headache