"Although only a fraction of children and adolescents with TBI develop chronic headaches related to their injury, because thousands of children sustain TBI each year, our findings indicate that many children and adolescents suffer from TBI-associated headaches each year," Dr. Blume and her associates said.
This study was limited in that it could not account for the possibility that because of anxiety or cultural expectations about head injuries, parents of children with TBI might be more likely to report headaches – and to rate them as severe or frequent – than were parents of children with arm injuries. In addition, the survey in this study asked about headaches during the preceding week, and may have missed important information about less-frequent but more-significant headaches that occurred outside that 7-day window, the researchers noted.
Dr. Blume and her associates said they had no relevant financial disclosures.