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What workup do you recommend for patients with stabbing headaches?

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Neurology · Greater Boston Headache Center at Boston Advanced Medicine

Stabbing headaches, also called icepick headaches or jabs & jolts, are severe pains in the head, often occurring spontaneously but sometimes caused by coughing or sneezing, lasting for seconds. They are so intense that they make the sufferer grab his or her head. They generally occur infrequently in...

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