Methods for treating headache
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1. A method for selecting a patient with an enhanced therapeutic response to botulinum toxin for treating a headache, the method comprising:
- a) identifying a patient who suffers from a headache duration of four or more hour per headache, and b) administering from between about 1 and about 2500 units of botulinum toxin to the identified patient, wherein the enhanced response is relative to a patient who suffers less than four hours duration per headache and wherein the patient who suffers four or more hours of headache pain per headache who is being treated with botulinum toxin for a headache experiences at least 2.1 headache-free days out of a 30-day-month more than a patient who suffers less than four hours of headache pain per headache and who is being treated with botulinum toxin for a headache.
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The present invention features methods for selecting a patient with an enhanced therapeutic response to a botulinum toxin treatment of a headache. In some embodiments, the methods comprise the step of identifying a patient who is not using a prophylactic headache pain medication, a patient who is overusing an acute pain medication, a patient who suffers four or more hours of headache pain per headache, a patient who has a chronic daily headache for twenty or more years, and/or a patient who has twenty or more headache days out of a 30-day-month.
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1. A method for selecting a patient with an enhanced therapeutic response to botulinum toxin for treating a headache, the method comprising:
- a) identifying a patient who suffers from a headache duration of four or more hour per headache, and b) administering from between about 1 and about 2500 units of botulinum toxin to the identified patient, wherein the enhanced response is relative to a patient who suffers less than four hours duration per headache and wherein the patient who suffers four or more hours of headache pain per headache who is being treated with botulinum toxin for a headache experiences at least 2.1 headache-free days out of a 30-day-month more than a patient who suffers less than four hours of headache pain per headache and who is being treated with botulinum toxin for a headache.
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