Alex played in a softball league with other fathers from his children’s school. After one particularly strenuous game, he began to feel a nagging ache in the back of his head. By the next morning, it had intensified into a knife-like pain, a terrible headache unlike...
NEW! Listen to this story Developing a low-pressure headache after receiving epidural anesthesia in childbirth is not uncommon: New mothers are often warned about the possibility that an anesthetist’s needle can slip just a hair too far, piercing the dura, allowing...
A lucky coincidence helped connect Katrina to an expert who could correctly diagnose and treat her spinal CSF leak. Katrina with her husband Katrina had just returned to Pasadena after a month-long trip to Australia with her boyfriend. She was 29, an interior designer...
Martha considers herself fortunate to have received a relatively speedy diagnosis and treatment—but it wasn’t an easy process. Martha was on her way home from her son’s hockey tournament when she first noticed the headache. As a former nurse, she was mildly concerned,...
by Andi BuchananAnn Fields is passionate about education. She’s spent the past 31 years as a special education teacher. And so it’s no surprise that she views her upcoming retirement party, on June 2, as a teachable moment. Even the invitations she made to hand out...
We were delighted to award three research grants on intracranial hypotension in 2018. The projects and principal investigators are listed below. We look forward to sharing progress reports on these research projects when available. Thanks to these investigators...
