The efficacy and efficiency of a self-administered treatment for adolescent migraine.

Migraine headaches are frequent in adolescents. Although many adolescents are adequately treated palliatively with analgesics, an important subgroup requires prophylactic treatment. Medical treatments for adolescents with frequent severe headaches is often problematic.

Children's drawings of their pain.

Children and adolescents with recurrent migraine headaches or musculo-skeletal pain were asked to draw a picture of their pain and another picture of themselves in pain. The drawings were categorized according to content and color. No differences in content or dominant color of drawings was found for sex and there were no changes with age (5-18 years).