It is well known that chronic headaches are controled with Stellate Ganglion Block. Effectiveness of stellate ganglion block was examined retrospectively in various chronic headache. The headache classification and the patients number were followed. There were totally 3, 192 chronic headache patients in Kanto Teishin Hospital from 1970 to 1992. 427 were migraine: 514 tension type headache, 120 mixed type, 390 cluster headache, 104 atypical vascular headache, 93 cervical headache, 566 atypical facial pain, 139 temporomandibular dysfunction, 22 facial pain due to neoplasm, 22 psycogenic facial pain, 310 other symptomatic facial pain, 85 other symptomatic headache, 189 others, 182 headache not classifiable. Female patients were 1, 847 and male patients were 1, 345. This study excluded 3, 400 of trigeminal neuralgia that cloud not control with stellate ganglion block and 3, 300 of herpes zoster patients that was general disease.
Patients were treated with stellate ganglion block one to two times a week, and were followed by questionnaire after 6 months of the last treatment. The follow up study showed that 43% of patients enjoyed headache free life without analgesics.
