Headaches and alternative treatment options…
Almost everyone has experienced a headache in their lives. It is top of the list for most common pains, and possibly the major underlying excuse in your life if you miss something. It may come up suddenly while you are sitting at your desk and working on a challenging task, at a stressful moment, or even at your sleep! You may feel a belt is tightened around your head or can even be a throbbing type of pain. Some of the headaches are periodic and a concomitant nausea may be felt. With the involvement of stress as a factor, the pain might strike at the neck as well. Do all these sound familiar with your experiences?
If your answer is yes, it means that you have suffered a type of headache. Headaches can occur on its own or as an outcome of other health related circumstances. You are not alone, even almost two thirds of children will experience headaches by the age of fifteen. More than 90% of adults will have it sometime in life. As I said earlier, it is the most common type of pain that we all go through sometime in our lives. And you know what, certain types of pain are genetically pass through families! Types or episodes might alter or disappear throughout your life, but the most important thing is to know why it comes and how it goes…
A headache, scientifically named as cephalalgia, is a pain you feel somewhere at the head or neck region. Headache is a non-specific symptom, as it can be experienced on its own for some no reason, it may also come out as a symptom due to various medical conditions of the head and neck. It may be vascular, spine, muscle, infection, or inflammation related.
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... another study is that abrupt discontinuation of feverfew after long-term use may stimulate a type of withdrawal syndrome that may cause rebound headaches. The ingredients parthenolide and tanetin helps to reduce inflammation just like ginger, and removes the pressure of the nerves. The chronic use may prevent migraines entirely, but never forget about the possibility of rebound headaches. An easier alternative way to stop the migraine attacks if from traditional Chinese medicine, the acupressure massage! It may be surprising but just place your index finger in the depression between your first and second toe and press firmly for about 5 minutes. Try if it works out, its just simple as that if your migraine is not a chronic one. For chronic migraines FDA has approve to use Botox injections, which help a lot to prevent migraine attacks for a period of 6 months.
Trigeminal Autonomic Cephalalgias (TACs) are highly interesting to me: This group of unilateral, excruciating primary headaches is accompanied by ipsilateral cranial autonomic symptoms and comprises of three major forms:
It has been shown that intrathecal administriton of GABA receptor antagonists cause hyperalgesia and allodynia. Constitutive, the increase in the endogenous GABA activity in the spinal cord alleviate pain resulting from noxious and innoxious mechanical and thermal stimuli. Different GABA receptors have different roles in alleviating thermal and mechanical pain in different animal pain models. There is no study to date that has examined the involvement of GABA A and GABA B in sensory dimension of neuropathic pain resulting from compression of spinal cord. The current study tests the hypothesis that GABA A or GABA B receptors contributes to the allodynia and hyperalgesia observed after spinal cord injury. The results showed that the effect of GABA A and GABA B receptors on mechanical hyperalgesia is similar but these receptors have different effects on thermal hyperalgesia. While using baclofen as GABA B receptor agonist does not affect the thermal pain, thermal hyperalgesia resulting from spinal cord injury was greatly alleviated by different doses of GABA A agonist, muscimol. Both Baclofen and muscimol are able to reduce the mechanical and cold allodynia has been seen after spinal cord injury but the effect of baclofen is dose dependent with no effect in higher doses used in this study. While almost all doses of muscimol were used in this study reduce the amount of cold and mechanical allodynia. The other result obtained in this study is the short term effect of GABA agonist. The anitinociceptive effect of Baclofen and muscimol appear to be maxium at 15 min after injection and gradually diminished by time and their analgesic effect disappeared 3 hours after injection.
The most common and well described pain transmission is “gate control theory of pain”. This theory was first proposed by Melzack and Wall in 1965 whereby they used the analogy of gate to explain the inhibition of pain which exists within the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. For instance, when tissue damage occurs, substances such as prostaglandin, serotonin, histamine and bradykinin are released from the injured cell. Individual usually consume or apply pain medications such as NSAIDs whereby these medications will cause electrical nerve impulse at the end of the sensory nerve fiber via nociceptor. Nociceptor is a pain receptor that is commonly found in the skin, cornea of eye and organ of motion such as muscles and ligaments. These nerve impulses
Have you ever wondered why when you stub your toe on the chair in the living room, it helps tremendously to yell out an expletive or two and vigorously rub the area? I may not be able to discuss the basis for such language in this paper, but we will explore the analgesic response to rubbing that toe, in addition to the mechanism of pain and alternative treatments such as acupuncture and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation.
A concussion is a head injury that can have damaging effects on athletes of all sports and ages. Concussions are regularly caused by a hard hit to the head or body that causes the brain to shake inside the skull. While there is fluid within the skull to protect the brain, when an athlete is hit hard enough, the brain moves to the point of hitting the skull, causing a head injury otherwise known as a concussion (“Concussions”). Terry Adirim, a medical doctor who writes articles for Clinical Pediatrician Emergency Magazine, says that an individual may have many different symptoms after receiving a concussion. Symptoms can include headache, nausea, dizziness, loss of consciousness, and vomiting, but each of these symptoms do not necessarily happen with every concussion.
Concussions are an injury that falls under the Traumatic Brain Injury category. A concussion occurs when a force causes the brain to rock back and forth inside the skull, and hit the interior walls of the skull. When this happens it can result in bruising on two parts of the brain, the Coup and the Countercoup. This may result in Loss of consciousness, confusion, headaches, nausea or vomiting, blurred vision, and loss of short-term memory. I know from experience the nausea and blurred vision. I noticed that during what I thought was a concussion though after the initial hits my ears would ring and give me very painful headaches.
Jane did explain that since the history of migraine headache had been going on for years it was going to take a while prior to seen any results but it was going to take some lifestyle changes other than the acupuncture to achieve the goal. The author left the office in a great note. Unable to gauge the results of the treatment yet but with a hopeful outlook for the future.
Migraines, which are three times more dominant in women than in men, are characterized by frequent attacks of moderate to severe, painful headaches that are often associated with nausea, vomiting, and sensitivity to sound and light. This headache pain typically occurs on one side of the head and is described as pulsing, pounding or throbbing pain lasting 4-72 hours if left untreated. Migraines may also present with or without an aura (sensory warning symptoms).1
Maybe you had no clue what these symptoms indicated at the time, but you may soon discover that you could have suffered from a migraine so it is important that you are aware of this debilitating illness for possible future occurrences.
Concussions are an injury to the brain caused by bump, or blow to the head or body. They can occur even when you haven’t even been knocked unconscious. Concussions can not be seen, but you can notice when someone has received one. (Center for Disease Control). The symptoms are Headaches, nausea, vomiting, balance problems, blurry vision, and memory problems or confusion. Also difficulty paying attention, bothered by lights or loud noises and feeling sluggish are sure symptoms of a concussion. (CDC 2). Even though concussions can’t be fully prevented, scientists are doing their best to find ways to decrease the amount of concussions that happen per year.
One of the most common symptoms related to these untreated injuries include headaches. To effectively treat a headache, the chiropractor needs to have the skills necessary to diagnose the type of headache a patient is experiencing. One headache that our chiropractors frequently treat is caused by tension and stress in the cervical spine. These headaches are very responsive to chiropractic care and other forms of physical medicine.
college of obstetricans in 2010, they state that the cortex is needed in order to feel pain. Another
Marturana, A. (2016). What headaches can tell you about your health. Retrieved October 27, 2017, from www.self.com
I remember the first day of this non-stop pain; it was the beginning of the week in first period. I felt this jolt of pain flow though my head like a mohawk. I thought it would go away by the end of the period like the headaches I’ve had before, but it didn’t. On a scale of on to ten it was a ten and I was about to cry because the pain was so bad. By the end of the period I was in the health office calling my mom to come pick me up. When I was home I took some Advil but it didn’t help one bit. My mom started to worry and called the doctor. H...
Pain: stress can cause pain because the body stimulates the muscles while fighting the stressor. Stress also causes migraines which can last for several days.