Primary Exercise Headache attributed to Jump Rope in Children: Case Report.
- Author:
Young Il RHO
1
Author Information
1. Department of Pediatrics, Chosun University School of Medicine, Gwangju, Korea. ryoung@chosun.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Headache;
Exercise;
Jump rope
- MeSH:
Child*;
Exercise;
Headache*;
Humans;
Hyperemia;
Indomethacin;
Research Personnel
- From:
Journal of the Korean Child Neurology Society
2014;22(1):17-19
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
Primary exercise headache (PEH) is usually precipitated by prolonged physically strenuous exercise. The headache is usually bilateral, severe, and pulsating in character in the patients with exercise headache. The pathophysiological mechanisms of PEH are still unknown. Most investigators believe it is vascular in origin, hypothesizing that venous or arterial distension secondary to physical exercise is the pain-inducing mechanism. The jump-rope could also evoke PEH due to intracranial venous congestion from retrograde jugular venous flow. Indomethacin is known to be effective for the majority of the cases. This is the first case with primary exercise headache from the jump-rope in Korean children.
