Different Types of Headaches
Is it as often as we think?
Yes Headache is one of the most common reasons for consultation in primary care consultations as both Neurology and Pain Unit, since there are published studies with rates of up to 87% of men suffer from headache ever life, reaching 98% of women.
Headache is also a very common cause of low absenteeism, accounting for this reason, an important socioeconomic factor.
Are there different types of headaches?
Traditionally, medical studies on migraines have been hampered by the wide disparity of classifications and diagnostic criteria that were used. Since 1988, the International Society for Headache (International Headache Society, IHS) publishes a unified classification criteria and facilitates the work of the physician. There are over 40 types of headaches.
Fundamentally, called primary and secondary headaches. In cases of secondary headaches can be identified anatomic abnormality and/or illness as a cause of headache. In the case of primary headaches do not. Fortunately, these last are the most frequent.
In this issue, we will refer only to the so-called migraine and tension headache, two headache forms represent about 97% of headaches.