We are currently trying to determine the difference between these concepts and Jim had asked for your input. I know we had some discussions regarding myofacial pain. Any comments are appreciated.
We are currently trying to determine the difference between these concepts and Jim had asked for your input. I know we had some discussions regarding myofacial pain. Any comments are appreciated.
3 Comments
Jorn Andre Jorgensen
A first comment is that Cranofacial Pain seems to be a grouper concept for pain related to all or part of the cranofacial complex.
"Headache" should be the feeling of pain related to the "inside" of the head - with the sensation of it originating from the "brain" or "behind the eyes". Also "headache" seems to be a grouper, mostly a container for different kinds of headache relating to what kind of pain, frequency, cause. And as we previously discussed, some symptoms that should not naturally be there, like dental headache and sinus headache.
I also noticed that most concepts here are primitives, and set to the same finding site (head structure). This may be part of the problem.
Anyhow. It is my opinion that cranofacial pain and headache is NOT the same. (sinus pain and dental pain being part of the first - not the latter).
Jørn
Mark Jurkovich
I personally agree with Jorn and that is the position of two people who "specialize" in this area that I have just heard from.
Benoit Soucy
I also agree with Jorn Andre’s statement that craniofacial pain and headache is not the same. Both are groupers of pain based on anatomical locations that partially overlap with the result that some instances of craniofacial pain are headaches but not all and some headaches would also fit the category of craniofacial pain, but not all. If the sharing of the finding site is the reason that causes related concepts to be primitives, I am afraid it might be a difficult issue to resolve.