Preliminary results, methodological considerations and recruitment difficulties of a randomised clinical trial comparing two treatment regimens for patients with headache and neck pain.

Background: Headache is a highly prevalent disorder. Irrespective of the headache diagnosis it is often accompanied with neck pain and -stiffness. Due to this common combination of headache and neck pain, physical treatments of the cervical spine are often considered.

The paracondylar process: an unusual and treatable cause of posttraumatic headache.

Study Design: Case report and clinical discussion.

Objective: To describe a case of persistent posttraumatic headache associated with the presence of a paracondylar process, and the result of surgical resection of this osseous anomaly.

Summary Of Background Data: The paracondylar process is one of a group of congenital anomalies of the craniovertebral junction.