Effect of respiratory physical therapy maneuver on the cerebral hemodynamic

Abstract

of the post-surgical period was significant related to temporomandibular disorder. Post-craniotomy headache based on the International Headache Society criteria was observed in 40% of the patients (acute in 11.0%; chronic in 30.2%). McGill Pain Questionnaire: PRI was positively and significantly related to the in tensity of the anxiety and had lower scores in the pterional approach; the number of words chosen was higher in women. SF-36: the scores were significantly lower than the ones found on a large Brazilian urban sample. The presence of anxiety and frontal craniotomy were associated with significant lower scores on bodily pain domain, and higher headache frequencies were significantly associated with lower scores on bodily pain and social functioning. Conclusion: Post-craniotomy headache had a high incidence, an early beginning, different features and a higher frequency than previous headaches and was associated with temporomandibular disorder, depressive and anxiety symptoms and with a significant re percussion on quality of life. Its frequency decreased with time. Pain was more intense in women, anxious persons and in those with frontal and orbitozygomatic approach.