Chronic headaches are common in childhood, which has a lot of parents wondering how to manage them and when to see a doctor. Susy Jeng, MD, a child neurologist, discusses commonly asked questions about managing headaches.


Chronic headaches are common in childhood, which has a lot of parents wondering how to manage them and when to see a doctor. Susy Jeng, MD, a child neurologist, discusses commonly asked questions about managing headaches.
Stabbing or dull? Burning? Throbbing? Constant or intermittent? How bad on a scale of 1 to 10?
If you’ve ever been in extreme or extended pain, you know how difficult it can be to put the experience in words. How then can doctors and pain psychologists understand what their patients are going through? And how can patients get the relief and connection that comes from articulating their experience?
If you’ve ever plunged your hand into a tub of ice water, you know about the overlap between cold and pain: That deep, biting ache makes you want to get your hand out of the water – fast. While the protective value of that sensation is obvious, scientists have always been a bit mystified by how pain-sensing nerves register cold temperatures. But now, Stanford research on a family with an extremely unusual gene mutation may help clarify what’s going on.