© 2001 the British Journal of Sports Medicine
Editorial
Headache in sport
Key Words: headache
The prevalence and nature of headache in sport is largely unknown. The only published study on sport related headaches was a survey performed on university students participating in varsity sport. The authors found that headaches were reported by 35% of all respondents with no gender effect evident.1, 2 There have also been anecdotal case reports of migraine and other headache syndromes occurring in a variety of sports.3–6
Community studies also note exercise as a potent trigger of migraine and other forms of headache. Despite this, the precise epidemiology of this phenomenon is unknown in community studies.7
Previously published epidemiological data on sport related headache suggests that headache in this setting is common, although the precise nature of the headaches and epidemiology remains unclear.1, 2 One would intuitively expect that in contact and collision sports that the prevalence of headaches would be high, however, prospective epidemiological studies remain to be performed.
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